Procurement of agricultural produces and payment of MSP to farmers
Procurement of wheat and paddy is done by Centralized Procurement System and Decentralized Procurement (DCP) System.Under Centralized Procurement System, the procurement of wheat and paddy in Central Pool are undertaken either by FCI directly or through State Government agencies. Under Decentralized Procurement (DCP) System,the State Government itself undertakes direct purchase of paddy and wheat. Food Corporation of India (FCI) is the Central nodal agency for procurement of wheat and Paddy. Total quantity of Wheat and Paddy procured by FCI from Marketing Season 2014-15 is as under:
| Wheat | Paddy | ||
| Rabi Marketing Season(RMS) | Quantity procured (in LMT) | Kharif Marketing Season(KMS) | Quantity procured (in LMT) |
| 2014-15 | 35.33 | 2014-15 | 3.75 |
| 2015-16 | 29.84 | 2015-16 | 9.62 |
| 2016-17 | 30.47 | 2016-17 | 11.86 |
| 2017-18 | 36.09 | 2017-18 | 7.75 |
| 2018-19 | 42.59 | 2018-19 | 6.74 |
| 2019-20 | 40.37 | 2019-20 | 7.36* |
| 2020-21 | 38.66 | – | – |
* As on 09.09.2020
Private players were engaged by FCI in Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, in order to increase the spread of Minimum Support Price (MSP) operations in eastern states of the country during KMS 2015-16 to KMS 2017-18 i.e. for three years.Total procurement of Paddy by private players engaged by FCI under MSP operations during KMS 2015-16 to KMS 2017-18 is as under:
| Kharif Marketing Season(KMS) | Quantity of Paddy procurement (In LMT) |
| 2015-16 | 2.49 |
| 2016-17 | 2.86 |
| 2017-18 | 2.35 |
State-wise; total quantum of wheat and paddy procured by the FCI since March 2019 is as follows-
| (Fig. in LMT) | |||||
| Wheat | Paddy | ||||
| S.No. | STATES | RMS 2019-20 | RMS 2020-21 | KMS 2018-19 | KMS 2019-20* |
| 1 | ASSAM | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.69 | 1.80 |
| 2 | CHANDIGARH | 0.13 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.22 |
| 3 | HARYANA | 11.33 | 6.69 | 0.00 | 0.05 |
| 4 | HIMACHAL PRADESH | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 5 | JHARKHAND | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.36 | 1.06 |
| 6 | JAMMU & KASHMIR | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.15 |
| 7 | PUNJAB | 15.72 | 14.20 | 0.00 | 2.24 |
| 8 | RAJASTHAN | 12.09 | 16.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 9 | NEF (Tripura) | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.13 |
| 10 | UTTAR PRADESH | 1.09 | 1.34 | 0.01 | 0.95 |
| 11 | WEST BENGAL | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.46 | 0.76 |
| TOTAL | 40.37 | 38.66 | 1.52 | 7.36 | |
| * As on 09.09.2020 | |||||
The total number of farmers availed the Minimum Support Price (MSP) from Paddy and Wheatis as follows-
| As on 09.09.2020 | |||||||||||
| S.No. | STATES/ UTs | Paddy | Wheat | ||||||||
| KMS 2015-16 | KMS 2016-17 | KMS 2017-18 | KMS 2018-19 | KMS 2019-20* | RMS 2016-17 | RMS 2017-18 | RMS 2018-19 | RMS 2019-20 | RMS 2020-21 | ||
| 1 | Andhra Pradesh | 276699 | 544570 | 498100 | 581839 | 669875 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Telangana | 535007 | 1088312 | 1077667 | 1474828 | 1988630 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Assam | 7288 | 6960 | 4332 | 12921 | 24552 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Bihar | 275484 | 287830 | 163425 | 210028 | 279402 | 0 | 0 | 4311 | 554 | 1002 |
| 5 | Chandigarh | 3468 | 2235 | 3148 | 3028 | 2960 | 1025 | 935 | 1557 | 1691 | 1410 |
| 6 | Chhattisgarh | 1110163 | 1327944 | 1014195 | 1571414 | 1838593 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Delhi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 | Gujarat | 335 | 1316 | 462 | 4370 | 5115 | 14 | 1700 | 20768 | 922 | 18824 |
| 9 | Haryana | 212351 | 556654 | 681984 | 830792 | 1891622 | 472313 | 690448 | 883783 | 902937 | 780962 |
| 10 | Himachal Pradesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 167 | 318 | 335 | 1061 |
| 11 | Jharkhand | 53945 | 39480 | 42346 | 34595 | 53305 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Jammu & Kashmir | 2812 | 2693 | 3856 | 3034 | 3143 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Karnataka | 14587 | 0 | 0 | 25120 | 27123 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | Kerala | 162737 | 125530 | 140777 | 172795 | 220066 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Madhya Pradesh | 199984 | 287759 | 278898 | 362089 | 436399 | 532907 | 738895 | 958417 | 961338 | 1593793 |
| 16 | Maharashtra | 111503 | 149279 | 116641 | 269148 | 522800 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | Odisha | 1078596 | 1101193 | 798619 | 1010390 | 1161796 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Puducherry | 83 | |||||||||
| 19 | Punjab | 1206216 | 940560 | 1142621 | 1143713 | 1125238 | 834655 | 843446 | 897905 | 830528 | 1049982 |
| 20 | Rajasthan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38942 | 110338 | 123939 | 102031 | 219873 |
| 21 | Tamilnadu | 850640 | 73367 | 413076 | 498097 | 556292 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Uttar Pradesh | 433556 | 435320 | 492913 | 684013 | 706549 | 166073 | 800646 | 1070044 | 749858 | 663810 |
| 23 | Uttrakhand | 51772 | 79470 | 7618 | 62564 | 83910 | 710 | 654 | 15987 | 6886 | 4656 |
| 24 | West Bengal | 721273 | 634696 | 350181 | 733357 | 805186 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Tripura | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5506 | 13613 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 7308416 | 7685168 | 7230859 | 9693641 | 12416252 | 2046766 | 3187229 | 3977029 | 3557080 | 4335382 | |
| *As on 09.09.2020 | |||||||||||
This information was given in a written reply by the Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Shri DanveRaosahebDadarao in Rajya Sabha today.
