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Agriculture & Food ProductionSangrur, Punjab, India· Source · Oct 2026

Paddy farmers in Punjab can't see how close their mandi is to its new procurement target before they bring their crop in.

Paddy farmers and commission agents selling at Punjab's mandis

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The problem, broken down

Who it hurts
Farmers growing non-Basmati paddy in Punjab, and the arhtiyas (commission agents) who handle their sales at each purchase centre.
The moment
A tractor-trolley of harvested paddy is ready, and the farmer has to choose a mandi without knowing whether it has already reached the quantity it was assigned.
What people do today
Farmers rely on arhtiyas and word of mouth; the mandi-wise targets were sent to agencies and officials through a proforma, not published for farmers.
Why it's unsolved
Targets are based on each centre's three-year average, but this year's crop is bigger, and nobody shows farmers live arrivals against the target, so the risk shows up only once they are already at the gate.
What solved looks like
A public board, by mandi, showing the assigned target, arrivals and purchases so far and the share remaining, updated daily, with alerts when a centre nears its limit and a list of nearby centres with room.

Evidence

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The Indian Express: A first, Punjab fixes paddy procurement target for each mandi; farmers question move (Oct 2026) ↗
  1. 1For the first time, Punjab has fixed mandi-wise procurement targets for paddy, basing each purchase centre's quantity on its average procurement over the past three years.
  2. 2The Centre fixed a target of 180 lakh tonnes (LMT) for paddy procurement from Punjab this season.
  3. 3Sangrur mandi has been assigned a target of 1,15,947 tonnes, while Kheri Mandi in the same district has been assigned 2,774 tonnes.
  4. 4A senior officer said that at around 30 quintals per acre, non-Basmati arrivals could be roughly 192 LMT, substantially higher than the Centre's 180-LMT target.
  5. 5Farmers and commission agents fear a purchase centre could reach its assigned quantity while farmers continue bringing marketable paddy to the mandi.

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  1. [1]The Indian Express: A first, Punjab fixes paddy procurement target for each mandi; farmers question move (Oct 2026)
What the source says, in short

For the first time, Punjab has fixed mandi-wise procurement targets for paddy, basing each purchase centre's quantity on its average procurement over the past three years. The Centre fixed a target of 180 lakh tonnes (LMT) for paddy procurement from Punjab this season. Sangrur mandi has been assigned a target of 1,15,947 tonnes, while Kheri Mandi in the same district has been assigned 2,774 tonnes. A senior officer said that at around 30 quintals per acre, non-Basmati arrivals could be roughly 192 LMT, substantially higher than the Centre's 180-LMT target. Farmers and commission agents fear a purchase centre could reach its assigned quantity while farmers continue bringing marketable paddy to the mandi.

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