MSP Operations during Kharif Marketing Season 2020-21
About 22.84 Lakh Paddy Farmers have benefitted from KMS Procurement Operations with MSP value of Rs. 50736.53 crore.
In the ongoing Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2020-21, Government continues to procure Kharif 2020-21 crops at its MSP from farmers as per its existing MSP 
Schemes.
Paddy procurement for Kharif 2020-21 is continuing smoothly in the procuring States & UTs of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh with purchase of over 268.73 LMTs of paddy upto 11.11.2020 against the last year corresponding purchase of 221.01 LMT showing an increase of 21.58 % over last year. Out of the total purchase of 268.73 LMT, Punjab alone has contributed 189.03 LMT which is 70.34 % of total procurement.
About 22.84 Lac farmers have already been benefitted from the ongoing KMS procurement Operations with MSP value of Rs. 50736.53 crore.