Karnal, April 2 -- The Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department of Haryana on Tuesday officially began the wheat procurement at 415 purchase centres in the state.

However, there was no arrival of crop recorded at any of the centre, officials said.

Haryana has set a target to procure 75 lakh metric tonne (MT) wheat of the total production of about 116.24 lakh MT, at the minimum support price (MSP) fixed at Rs.2,425 per quintal.

According to the agriculture department, wheat has been sown in an area of 24.63 lakh hectares.

As part of the rabi marketing season, procurement for barley and gram also started on the day at 25 and 11 centres respectively, in the state.

The authorities have claimed to have arrangements in place; h...