UP wheat procurement at 1.2 mn tonnes is just 15% of mid-June target

Despite having 5,000 procurement centres, UP lacks warehouses to store large quantities of the crop

Even as wheat procurement in Uttar Pradesh by government agencies has touched 1.2 million tonnes (MT), the Yogi Adityanath government dispensation faces an uphill task to achieve procuring its targetted 8 MT by mid-June 2017.

The wheat procurement season had kicked off on April 1 and even as 35 of the total 75 procurement days have passed, the state agencies have managed to procure only 15 per cent of its target. The procurement would continue till June 15.

Meanwhile, the state farmers have also been paid nearly Rs 2,000 crore against the procurement of wheat. Earlier, the Yogi government had