LUCKNOW, June 15 -- With wheat procurement for the 2025-26 Rabi marketing season ending, the Uttar Pradesh government is set to shift focus to maize procurement. The state has decided to purchase the zaid crop at the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs.2,400 per quintal from farmers across 26 districts between June 15 (Monday) and July 31.

"The three-month wheat procurement drive ends on June 15 and maize procurement in 26 districts across the state begins the same day," principal secretary (food and civil supplies) Ranvir Prasad said.

The state government, he said, had issued detailed guidelines for procurement of maize under the MSP scheme, launching a large-scale procurement exercise aimed at ensuring remunerative prices to farmers and...