Navsari:

Agriculture Minister R C Faldu today said that the procurement of groundnut by government at minimum support price (MSP) would continue in the state till the ‘last sack’ of the crop remained to be sold.

Faldu, who was here to participate in the convocation ceremony of Navsari Agriculture University, told newsmen that not even a single procurement center has been closed.

‘I again want to assure the farmers of Gujarat to not to worry at all. Till the last sack of groundnut remained to be sold, the government procurement at MSP would continue and all the government procurement centers would remain open,’ he said.

”We know that the farmers produce the crop by hard work and government won’t let go in vain their hard work,’ he said.

Notably, Gujarat has seen a record production of groundnut, one of the two main cash crops in the state apart from cotton, this year. A good quantity of produce is yet to be sold.