Centre has procured a third of all wheat arrivals totalling 600,000 tonnes as of April 3 compared to procurement of just 350,000 tonnes in the year-ago period
Even as the Punjab food and civil supplies department, Markfed, Punsup, State Warehousing Corporation, Pungrain and the Centre’s Food Corporation of India started procurement of wheat on Monday no produce arrived from the fields in grain markets across the state on Day 1