Purchases of wheat amounted to 7.7 million tonnes

Ministry of
Agriculture announced that from the beginning of the harvest season until
September 1st, seven million six hundred and seventy thousand tonnes of wheat
has been purchased on the needs of farmers.

According to the
ministry of agriculture and the information and communication technology
department the value of wheat purchased so far has been 13 thousand 2 hundred
and 85 billion tomans which until the aforementioned date, 11 thousand and 437
billion tomans had been paid to farmers and 1 thousand and 848 billion tomans
will be paid in due course.

According to this
report, Khuzestan province with 1,301,000 tonnes, Kordestan with 721,000
tonnes, Fars with 651,000 tonnes, Golestan with 559,000 tonnes, and Kermanshah
with 545,000 tonnes have had the highest wheat purchase rate from farmers.