“Under MSP scheme 4.20 lakh tons of ground-nut worth Rs 2200 crores procured this year in Gujarat from 2.11 lakh farmers”

Gandhinagar: Around 4.20 lakh tons of ground-nut has been procured under Minimum Support Price scheme from 2 lakh 11 thousand farmers across Gujarat this year, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Jayesh Radadiya today informed.

Talking to newsmen Radadiya said that the total procurement during the 90 days was worth Rs 2200 crore at the rate of Rs 1000 per mun or per 20 kg.

‘The payments have also been credited to the accounts of 92 to 95% of the farmers so far and that for the rest of them would also be done soon,’ he said.

Notably, the procurement of groundnut in Gujarat which had started on 122 ceners across the state on November 15 this year had ended yesterday.

The Food and Civil Supply Corporation was the state level agency for the procurement for which NAFED was the center level agency.

The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) paid an effective MSP of Rs 5,000 per quintal for groundnuts-in-shell, which included the Centre’s Rs 4,890 rate and a Rs 110 bonus declared by the state government.
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