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UP eyes 5 mt paddy procurement; payout to farmers estimated at Rs 85 bn

The state will set up about 3,000 procurement centres across UP during the entire 5-month kharif season

Farm labourers making bunches of paddy saplings to plant at a field on the outskirts of Guwahati | Photo: PTI
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Farm labourers making bunches of paddy saplings to plant at a field on the outskirts of Guwahati | Photo: PTI

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
In the crucial election year, the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is targeting paddy procurement of 5 million tonnes (mt) in the kharif season of 2018-19. 

The paddy procurement process kicked off on Monday in western UP and some central UP districts and will continue till January 2019-end. Procurement in eastern UP and the remaining central UP districts would start from November 1 and continue till February 2019-end. 

The state Cabinet had earlier hiked the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy by Rs 180 to Rs 200 per quintal (100 kg). While the price was revised from Rs 1,550

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