Gujarat begins procuring pulses, soyabean, paddy

The Gujarat govt on Wednesday introduced procurement of kharif crops this sort of as paddy, maize, millet, moong, urad and soyabean at the MSP fees. The procurement of paddy, maize and millet will materialize involving Oct 16 and December 31, whilst that for moong, urad and soybean will acquire put involving November 2 and January thirty, the State Cupboard mentioned.

The Gujarat State Civil Supplies Corporation will be the nodal company in coordination with NAFED. On the net registration will proceed until Oct 29 for paddy, maize and millet. Procurement will proceed until December 31.

The State govt has set up ninety two procurement centres for paddy, 61 for maize, 57 for millet, seventy one for moong, 80 for urad and 60 centres for soyabean.So much 2.eight lakh farmers have registered for groundnut procurement, which will start out from Oct 20. The State govt has proposed to procure about 13.66 lakh tonnes of groundnut.