Wheat procurement may touch 250 lakh tonnes
The Centre's wheat procurement may touch 250 lakh tonnes in the 2009-10 marketing season, if it could procure from Bihar the same quantity of the foodgrain that it had bought a year ago.
India decided to offer 3 million tonnes of wheat to private buyers and an extra 6 million tonnes of grains to states for supply to the poor at cheaper rates, the Food Minister said on Tuesday.