Chandigarh, Sept. 7 -- A day after the Punjab government's Custom Milling Policy (CMP) for the upcoming season starting October 1 permitted millers who delivered 90% of their 2025 paddy allocation to the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to receive fresh allocations, millers claimed that their previous year's stocks are actually higher than projected in the policy.

As estimated by the state food and civil supplies department, the millers will hand over 90% of rice stocks (after milling paddy) to the FCI by September 30 so as to make them eligible for getting fresh stocks.

Paddy procurement in the state is expected to begin on October 1, with a bumper harvest predicted from a record-high cultivation area of 32.7 lakh hectares. Due to a bum...