<span style="color: #222222;">The food Ministry today said that the paddy procurement is progressing smoothly in Kharif Marketing Season KMS 2021-22 at Minimum Support Price MSP from farmers. <br />''<br />''It said, a quantity of over 695 Lakh Metric Tonnes of Paddy has been procured in KMS 2021-22 till yesterday in the procuring States and UTs. The States and UTs are Chandigarh, Gujarat, Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Telangana, Rajasthan, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, West Bengal, NEF (Tripura), Bihar, Odisha, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh.<br />''<br />''Till now over 94 Lakh farmers have been benefitted with MSP value of over 1 lakh 36 thousand 350 crore rupees.</span><br />