The total purchase price amounted to 137 trillion. riyals ($3.87 billion). The pace of procurement is 40% ahead of last year, according to Financial Tribune.

Plan for procurement of wheat, which is estimated at 10 million tons, is already exceeded. Purchasing the campaign will run until the end of September, so the government expects that farmers sell to the state Fund a record amount of wheat.

Last year, the state Fund was contracted, 8.08 million tons of wheat, the crop was 11.5 million tons. In 2016, Iran has collected 13 million tons of wheat.