Chandigarh: Haryana has achieved about 98 per cent wheat procurement target with purchase reaching 63.85 lakh tonnes in the ongoing rabi marketing season in the state.

Haryana has set a target of procuring 65 lakh tonnes for the current season.

Wheat procurement so far is also 3 per cent more than what was purchased in corresponding period last year.

An official spokesman said so far wheat procurement is 2,15,447 metric tonnes higher as compared to the procurement made up to same day last year.

He said out of the total arrival of 63,85,629 metric tonnes this year, 63,85,364 metric tonnes of crop has been procured by government procuring agencies at Minimum Support Price and remaining 265 metric tonnes was lifted by the traders.

Giving details of the procurement, he said 18.93 lakh metric tonnes of wheat had been procured by the Food and Supplies Department, 27.71 lakh metric tonnes by Hafed, 6.63 lakh metric tonnes by Haryana Agro, 10.50 lakh metric tonnes by Haryana Warehousing Corporation and 5,800 metric tonnes of wheat was purchased by Confed.