<span style="color: #222222;">Government has said that 55,49,000 paddy farmers have been benefited from current Kharif Marketing Season Procurement Operations with MSP value of over Rs 84,928 crore. The Agriculture Ministry said, around 450 lakh tonnes of paddy have been procured from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Chandigarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Kerala, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It said, the Government continues to procure Kharif crops at its Minimum Support Price from farmers as per its existing MSP schemes. The Ministry said, approval was accorded for procurement of over 51 lakh tonnes of Pulse and Oilseeds from Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, Gujarat, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh under Price Support Scheme.</span><br />''