Wheat procurement has crossed 38 million tonnes in the current marketing year so far as the government's wheat purchase drive is coming to close in most of the growing states. According to the official data, maximum 12.8 million tonnes of wheat has been procured from Punjab followed by Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

The quantity of the grain procured as of now is much higher than the targeted 31.8 million tonnes for the current year. In the same period last year, the government had purchased only 28 million tonnes of wheat.