Karnal, March 31 -- The food, civil supplies and consumer affairs department of Haryana will on Tuesday start procurement of wheat as part of rabi marketing season 2025-26 at 415 purchase centres in the state, including 23 in Karnal.

As per the estimates of agriculture department wheat has been sown in an area of 24.63 lakh hectares and it is likely production would be about 116.24 lakh metric tonne (MT).

Out of this, Haryana has set the target to procure 75 lakh MT wheat at the minimum support price (MSP) fixed at Rs.2,425 per quintal.

As part of the season, procurement for barley and gram will also start from April 1 at 25 and 11 centres respectively, while the purchase of sunflower will begin from June 1 at 17 places.

Earlier, the ...