The wheat procurement process, which formally started on April 1, is yet to build up creep within the Doaba place, with handiest minimal arrivals reported at grain markets. In Jalandhar district, handiest 300 metric tonnes (MT) of wheat luxuriate in reached procurement centres, while nearly 1,700 MT has been brought to mandis in Kapurthala. Procurement has yet to launch up in Hoshiarpur and SBS Nagar districts.
Consultants remark the advent process will carry out momentum after April 15 as harvesting has been delayed attributable to detrimental weather prerequisites final week. In 2025, the procurement businesses procured 13.84 lakh MT of wheat from Doaba place comprising Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar. The divulge businesses are expecting to luxuriate in 14.50 lakh MT this time.
Jalandhar’s district meals and provide controller (DFSC) Narinder Singh acknowledged the total preparations luxuriate in been made for a bother-free procurement season. “We’re expecting wheat arrivals in grain markets to build up creep handiest after April 15,” he acknowledged.
Meanwhile, Jalandhar’s chief agriculture officer Jaswinder Singh acknowledged the wheat slice requires excessive temperatures all over every single day and evening to dry smartly so as that the moisture scream material may perchance perchance perchance additionally be maintained on the time of harvesting.
“The farmers luxuriate in been appealed to notify handiest dry yield to the grain markets so as that they luxuriate in now not face any effort,” he acknowledged.
Sarwan Singh Baupur, a farmer chief from Kapurthala, acknowledged the divulge authorities and procurement businesses have to give some relaxations within the moisture scream material as heavy spells of rainfall in March and April luxuriate in affected the slice smartly being.
