Rajkot: The procurement of groundnut for 2019-20 season under center’s Minimum Support Price (MSP) scheme will be started in Gujarat at over a hundred centers across the state from tomorrow, the labh pacham day.

Food and Civil Supply department minister Jayesh Radadiya said that the online registration for the same had started from October one.

The actual procurement would start from Labh Pacham day ie from tomorrow 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. If the need be the number of procurement centers would also be increased,’ he added.

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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