6.57 lakh tonnes of rice delivered to FCI: HAFED

CHANDIGARH: State-owned Haryana State Co-operative Supply and Marketing Federation Limited ( HAFED) today said it has delivered about 6.57 lakh metric tonnes of rice to Food Corporation of India (FCI) till date.

This constitutes about 99.60 per cent of the total rice to be delivered.

While giving this information here today, an official spokesman said that HAFED had sold consumer products worth Rs 22.89 crore from April 1, 2015, to July 31, 2015.

He said the federation had sold 1.67 lakh metric tonnes of urea and 0.43 lakh metric tonnes of DAP from April 1, 2015, to August 27, 2015.

Similarly, HAFED had purchased 29.55 lakh metric tonnes of wheat during the current Rabi-2015 season and dispatched 23.23 lakh metric tones of wheat till August 18, 2015, in financial year 2015-16.

The Federation has made adequate arrangements for procurement and storage of wheat in the subsequent Rabi-2015 season, he added.

He said 30.88 lakh quintals of sugarcane have been crushed by the HAFED Sugar Mill at Assandh during the current crushing season and so far, an average of 10.19 per cent sugar recovery has been achieved.