<span style="color: #222222;">Paddy procurement for Kharif 2020-21 is continuing smoothly with purchase of over 362.31 Lakh Metric Tonnes of paddy up to 9th of this month against last year's corresponding purchase of 298.79 LMT. This is an increase of 21.25 per cent over last year. Out of the total purchase of 362.31 LMT, Punjab alone has contributed 202.77 LMT which is 55.96 percent of total procurement.<br />''<br />''About 38.62 lakh farmers have already been benefited from the ongoing procurement operations with MSP value of over 68 thousand 405 crore rupees.</span>

Paddy procurement for Kharif 2020-21 is continuing smoothly with purchase of over 284.18 Lalk Metric Tonnes (LMT) of paddy till yesterday against last year's corresponding purchase of 239.69 LMT. <br />''<br />''This is an increase of 18.56 percent over last year. Punjab alone has contributed 198.38 LMT which is 69.81 percent of total procurement.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">About 24.39 lakh farmers have already benefitted from the ongoing procurement operations with MSP value of over 53 thousand crore rupees. </span><br />

<span style="color: #222222;">Paddy procurement for Kharif 2020-21 is continuing smoothly in the procuring states and UTs with purchase of over 281.28 Lakh Metric Tonnes, LMTs of paddy till yesterday against the last year corresponding purchase of 233.89 LMT.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''This is an increase of 20.25 percent over last year. Out of the total purchase of 281.28 LMT, Punjab alone has contributed 196.13 LMT which is 69.73 percent of total procurement.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''About 24.14 lakh farmers have already been benefitted from the ongoing procurement operations with MSP value of over Rs. 53,000 crore.</span><br />