2024-25 Rabi season: Ludhiana DC directs officials to ensure smooth, quick wheat procurement
The deputy commissioner said that the wheat had been sown on 2.50 lakh hectares area in the district and around 8.11 lakh MT wheat was expected to arrive in 108 grain markets
Deputy commissioner Sakshi Sawhney on Thursday directed officials of food and civil supplies department and heads of procurement agencies to ensure smooth and quick procurement of wheat for the upcoming season.
The deputy commissioner said that the wheat had been sown on 2.50 lakh hectares area in the district and around 8.11 lakh MT wheat was expected to arrive in 108 grain markets.
She directed all the officials to personally supervise the wheat procurement operations across the district beginning from April 1. This is to ensure prompt procurement and lifting of wheat as per their allotted share of procurement.
Sawhney emphasised that farmers in the district should not be put to any inconvenience for the sale of their produce in the grain markets.
