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Several farmers blocked road in Gondal market yard, while some others in Khambhalia burned their crops to registered their protest. In Bhatia market yard out 100 only 31 farmers came, said Ambalia“The farmers who came to market yard did not sell the crop and left in protest. Chairman of market yard D K Sakhia announced: “All the bags won’t be checked and only five bags per farmers will be checked randomly.”In Gondal market yard farmers blocked Rajkot-Junagadh highway. This also irked the farmers.The farmers at old marketing yard held protest and blocked the Rajkot-Ahmedabad highway for half an hour. Rajkot: Procurement of groundnut at minimum support price (MSP) began at over 90 market yards across Saurashtra on Thursday morning, with many farmers opposing the government’s procedure..