Central Pool

June 10, 2011 July 27, 2017

Central pool procured food grains by the Central Government with the Food Corporation of India.

The procurement of food grains by the FCI is higher in the states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
These 4 states have accounted for nearly 69.7% of the rice procured for central pool in 2006-07, 69.46% in 2007-08 and 67.47% in 2008-09.
So these 4 states viz. of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh account for two third of the procurement of the rice in the central pool.
In the central pool, Punjab and Haryana accounted for 91.1% in 2007-08, 66.88% in 2008 and 69.53 % in 2008-09.
So these two states Punjab and Haryana account for more than two third in the central pool wheat. In 2007-08 there was a record harvest so the procurement from these states was 91.1%.