Gujarat farmers rush for groundnut seeds as monsoon rains approach

Farmers in Gujarat are witnessed rushing for groundnut seeds as the monsoon rains inch closer with the approaching cyclonic storm future week. Groundnut cultivation in the Condition is expected to jump by at least twenty-twenty five for every cent to strike a file 19 lakh hectares, up from fifteen.52 lakh ha documented in 2019-twenty.

A file groundnut region would indicate a sharp surge in seed demand. Apart from the Condition Seeds Corporation, farmers are also queuing up at the groundnut millers, who are discovering groundnut seed providing a promising bet amid improved demand.

An official of the Gujarat Condition Seeds Corporation informed that the demand has been higher as farmers have switched about from cotton crop to groundnut this kharif year. “We expected that there would be a surge in the groundnut sowing due to the fact of the challenges confronted by farmers in the cotton crop last yr. We experienced saved approximately double the inventory from what we bought last yr. This yr, we have previously surpassed the quantity we bought last yr and there is additional demand coming up,” the official informed.

This has pushed up the groundnut seed charges in the marketplace from ₹2,000 for every thirty kg to ₹2,800 for distinctive varieties. The Condition seed corporation, nonetheless, presents subsidy of ₹1,200 for each pack. An acre needs about 2-3 packets of seed for the sowing.

Likely by the feasible rise in the groundnut region, there will be a demand for about 2.37 lakh tonnes of groundnut seeds (as for every the calculation of 4-five packs of seed necessity for every hectare), estimates recommend.

Selling prices, procurement

Saurashtra continues to be a heartland for groundnut cultivation with about twelve.six lakh hectares under groundnut cultivation — additional than eighty for every cent of the State’s full groundnut region. Of the two main kharif crops, cotton and groundnut, farmers have preferred the oilseed about the fibre crop generally for greater selling price potential clients and climatic aspects.

In the course of last yr, groundnut generate has been a great deal greater and procurement by the federal government businesses like Nafed has been strong, which presented farmers remunerative charges at the Minimal Guidance Cost (MSP) charges. The MSP for groundnut for 2019-twenty was at ₹5,090 for every quintal, whilst the MSP for cotton was saved at ₹5,550.

The marketplace charges for groundnut hovered higher than the MSP for most of the year in the vary of ₹5,250-six,495 in Rajkot. Cotton bore the brunt of climatic adversities, pink bollworm attack and lowered generate with its charges hovering in the vary of ₹3,five hundred-4,900.

Farmer leader Ajay Vir Jakhar has hinted that 2020 will continue being a challenging yr with lot of pitfalls affiliated with cotton and maize. “Both are expected to promote underneath MSP and last year’s charges. Farmers shouldn’t realistically assume strained funds to be ready to give MSP this yr,” he reported.

Also, experts mentioned that improved h2o availability from last year’s good monsoon, and the Fulfilled Department’s prediction of timely, usual monsoon this yr has brightened the potential clients for groundnut cultivation.

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