As much as 66.82 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of paddy has so far arrived in the mandis of Haryana, of which 58.49 lakh MT paddy was purchased by government procurement agencies.
The current arrivals were 8 per cent higher than the crop that had arrived in the corresponding period of last year.
While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Food and Supplies Department said that 27.18 lakh MT of paddy was purchased by the department, 19.17 lakh MT by Hafed and 5.54 lakh MT by the Haryana Agro-Industries Corporation.
He said that 6.40 lakh MT was purchased by the the Haryana Warehousing Corporation and 19,585 MT was bought by the Food Corporation of India.
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