Madhya Pradesh Government (Madhya Pradesh Government) claims that this time one crore 29 lakh 28 thousand metric tons of wheat has been purchased from farmers, which is an all-time record till date.
Bhopal.In the lockdown caused by the Corona disaster, the Annadata of Madhya Pradesh has shown a feat that had never happened in the country before. Yes, this time all time record has been created in Madhya Pradesh for wheat procurement. As much purchase of wheat was done in the state this time as never before. Madhya Pradesh Government (Madhya Pradesh Government) claims that this time one crore 29 lakh 28 thousand metric tons of wheat has been purchased from farmers, which is an all-time record till date. In the case of wheat procurement, Madhya Pradesh has already beaten Punjab to number one. This task was not easy in that phase of lockdown and corona transition. This was possible due to the good management and hard work of the farmers. There was a record production of wheat in MP, but due to corona infection its government procurement was no less than a challenge. Know how Madhya Pradesh was able to reach this stage.
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Punjab tops the list
The special thing is that this time the amount of wheat purchased in Madhya Pradesh is more than 75 percent more than last year. So far, 1 crore 29 lakh 28 thousand metric tons of wheat has been purchased in Madhya Pradesh, which is more than 33 percent of the whole country. Government procurement of 3 crore 86 lakh 54 thousand metric tonnes of wheat was done in the whole country. In this case, MP has pushed Punjab to number two. There has been an increase of 74 percent in wheat procurement in Madhya Pradesh compared to last year. Last year, 73.69 lakh metric tonnes of wheat was purchased at support price in Madhya Pradesh. This time in Madhya Pradesh, government procurement of wheat started from April 15, which ended on June 5. Due to the high production of wheat, this time the procurement center was also increased from 3 thousand 545 to 4 thousand 529.
CM’s record meeting
This time MP had a bumper wheat crop, so buying wheat was also a big challenge. CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan gave priority to management in wheat procurement. From March 23 till now, more than 75 meetings were held. CM reviewed the purchase everyday. Whereas on coming number 1, the CM congratulated the team of the Food and Civil Supplies Department and the farmers of the state for this achievement.
Special arrangements in lockdown,
this time the purchase of wheat on the support price was started at such a time. When the state was in the grip of corona epidemic and lockdown was in force throughout the country. The government issued some rules as a precaution for the farmers and only those farmers who were sent messages to purchase. At one time only 10 to 12 farmers were called for purchase in one shift. Social distance and sanitizer were arranged in Mandi. 75 lakh SMS were sent to the farmers to inform them about the arrival of the market. The state government sent the amount of wheat purchase directly to the farmers’ accounts in an average of 7 days. The government says that till now an amount of 22 thousand crores has been sent to the accounts of 14 lakh 19 thousand farmers.
