Chandigarh, May 11 (IANS) Breaking all previous records of wheat procurement, Haryana has procured about 82.26 lakh tonnes of wheat this season, officials of the state Food and Supplies department said Friday.
The procurement this year is the highest-ever since the inception of Haryana as a separate state Nov 1, 1966.
The previous procurement record in Haryana was 69.28 lakh tonnes of wheat during the last procurement season (2011).
A spokesman of the food and supplies department said that over 82.27 lakh tonnes of wheat had arrived in Haryana grain markets till Thursday.
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