Online registration for procurement of groundnut under MSP scheme begins
October 01, 2019
Gandhinagar: The online registration for procurement of groundnut for 2019-20 season under center’s Minimum Support Price (MSP) scheme has started from today.
The actual procurement would start from Labh Pacham day ie from November 1 on 124 centers across the state under CCTV monitoring and foolproof arrangements for storage. This year the MSP has been fixed at Rs 1018 per Mun or 20 kg unit ie Rs 5090 per quintal.
Today during the registration process some technical glitches were also witnessed.
This year it has been estimated that a record production of around 25 lakh tonnes of groundnut would be there in Gujarat and the government would procure around 8 lakh tonnes at MSP.
Notably last year around 4.50 lakh tonnes of groundnut was procured at the rate of Rs 5000 per quintal.
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