82.79 lakh farmers benefitted with MSP value of Rs. 1,25,020.85 crore

The government has procured paddy from farmers at MSP as like previous years.

A quantity of 637.86 LMT of Paddy has been procured in KMS 2021-22 up to 30.01.2022 in the procuring States/UTs of Chandigarh, Gujarat, Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Telangana, Rajasthan, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, NEF (Tripura), Bihar, Odisha, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Till now about 82.79 lakh farmers have been benefitted with MSP value of Rs 1,25,020.85 crore.