Summary:
The purchase of groundnuts at Minimum Support Price (MSP) formally started from Thursday across the state. Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel said that the government ensured proper planning and management maintaining transparency in purchase of groundnuts from farmers. The process remained totally smooth and transparent at across 122 purchase centres raised in state through civil supplies department." The Food and Civil Supplies Department has been acting as a nodal agency in co-operation with NAFED of the Central Government for purchase of groundnuts. The price of groundnuts as announced by the Central Government is Rs..