India to offer 3 million tonnes of wheat to private buyers:
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.
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.