The paddy purchased from farmers this year was highest ever in Chhattisgarh, state government claimed here on Friday.
In all 82.80 lakh ton paddy was purchased from farmers and they were paid Rs 14,400 crore for the same, a press release issued by the state government claimed.
However, the procurement fell short of the state government’s target of procuring about 85 lakh metric ton of paddy this year.
Meanwhile, department officials informed that 2,047 procurement centres were setup across the state and in all paddy worth Rs 14,751 crore was purchased from farmers out of which Rs 14,400 crore has already been transferred to their accounts.
Food and Civil Supplies department officials said that in all 19.55 lakh farmers had registered for selling paddy this year.
“As compared to marketing year 2018-19 there has been 15.17 percent increase in farmers registration and 4.98 percent jump in the acreage,” officials said.
As compared to previous year, this year there has been jump of 25.29 percent marginal farmers and 9.3 per cent small farmers selling paddy on support price, they added.
