Bhaveshbhai Patel (34) keeps an attentive eye as two men peel out groundnut kernels from a batch of 100gm , weigh them, and put them into a small machine. Patel’s anxiety broke into a smile when this sample out of his 2500kg groundnut produce cleared the quality test – which included a moisture test and an analysis of the size and weight of the kernels – before being procured by the state government at the minimum support price (MSP).

Patel – who was waiting for the procurement to start for the last 20 days since he harvested his groundnut crop – reached Shri Dehgam Taluka Co-operative Processing Society Limited with his produce on Sunday morning from Manekpur village, around 20 km from Dehgam.

The state government from Sunday started purchasing the farmers’ crops – groundnuts, moong, ur

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