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No milling of hybrid varieties, Punjab likely to face paddy procurement crisis
The New Indian Express Vijayawada
|August 20, 2025
WITH paddy cultivation touching an all-time high of 32.49 lakh hectares in Punjab, the state is once again staring at a procurement and storage crisis this kharif season.
WITH paddy cultivation touching an all-time high of 32.49 lakh hectares in Punjab, the state is once again staring at a procurement and storage crisis this kharif season. Rice millers have declared they will not mill hybrid varieties, even as the Punjab and Haryana HC on Monday struck down the state's ban on such seeds.
This story is from the August 20, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Vijayawada.
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