Government raises wheat procurement target by 15% as farmers turn to MSP

NEW DELHI: Government has accrued the wheat procurement people to 34.5 cardinal tonnes (MT), astir 15% higher than what it had acceptable for the existent Rabi selling season. This comes amid indications that much farmers are apt to opt to merchantability their nutrient to the authorities astatine MSP since mandi prices are lower.Recently, the governments of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar sought that the Centre summation wheat procurement. While authorities usually revises targets adjacent to the extremity of the procurement period, this twelvemonth the determination was taken early. Government connected Friday besides urged flour millers to acquisition wheat straight from the marketplace alternatively of relying connected income by the Food Corporation of India (FCI).Government has truthful acold purchased 16.4 MT of wheat successful the ongoing procurement season.Against the MSP of Rs 2,585 per quintal, the all-India mean mandi terms of wheat connected April 22 was Rs 2,572. The mean farmgate terms successful UP was Rs 2,439 per quintal and Rs 2,416 successful MP.At the merchandise of “Annual Wheat Survey Report 2026” prepared by Roller Flour Millers Federation of India, nutrient caput Sanjeev Chopra said that astatine the petition of authorities govts, procurement targets person been raised successful MP (from 7.8 MT to 10 MT), UP (1 MT to 2.5 MT), Rajasthan (2.1 MT to 2.3 MT), Bihar (18,000 tonnes to 1,80,000 tonnes) and Uttarakhand (1,000 tonnes to 50,000 tonnes).

Government has relaxed procurement norms for 4 states, but Uttarakhand, which saw harvest harm owed to adverse weather.Chopra said they estimation wheat accumulation would beryllium successful the scope of 110–120 MT pursuing harm from unseasonal rainfall and hailstorms successful cardinal increasing states. The flour millers' federation has estimated wheat accumulation of 110 MT.The agriculture ministry earlier estimated the accumulation astatine 120.2 MT, earlier the adverse upwind conditions.The yearly survey study said that determination was mean to precocious interaction connected the wheat harvest successful 9 states — Punjab, West Bengal, UP, Haryana, Bihar, MP, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra — owed to unseasonal rainfall and hailstorm betwixt Feb and April.