Wheat Procurement Exceeds Estimates; Open Market Prices Drop As of 4 June 2018, 34.724 MMT of wheat had been procured for 2018/19 by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state agencies, 8.51 percent more than the government of India’s (GOI’s) fixed target of 32 MMT. For reference, the 2017/18 procurement totaled 30.824 MMT.

Two states that form the country’s breadbasket, Punjab and Haryana, have delivered the most wheat to GOI warehouses at a total 21.43 MMT, 61.71 percent of the volume procured thus far. While the procurement is completed there, it is still open in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The final total is expected to possibly reach 35 MMT, which would be a record. While this is good...