After initial roadblocks, UP achieves robust growth in paddy procurement

In the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the ruling BJP does not want to give any chance to the opposition parties to attack the Adityanath government over farm issues

After facing initial hiccups, the Uttar Pradesh government has achieved robust growth in paddy procurement with the current tally of over 4.3 million tonnes (MT). The numbers are already ahead of last year’s full-season figures.

So far, UP has already achieved over 85% of its target to procure 5 MT of paddy during the current kharif marketing season.

Earlier, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had pulled up the UP food and civil supplies department for the slow pace of procurement initial months of the ongoing procurement season, which began from October 2018 and would continue till February 2019 end.

In fact,