Rice procurement in the Kharif marketing season 2011-12 (October-September) has crossed the mark of 218 lakh tonne. According to statistics 218,33,477 tonne rice has been procured by the various government agencies by February 02, 2012.
Punjab procured 77,31,325 tonne followed by Chhatisgarh 34,05,594 Andhra Pradesh 30,49,968 and Haryana 19,70,020 tonne of rice. This procurement is 190,97,723 tonne more than the corresponding day of last marketing season.