The Central Government annually releases the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for Rabi and Kharif crops. On the basis of this, various agencies of the government buy the crops of the farmer. However, MSP is not issued by the government for horticultural crops like potatoes, onion, garlic and tomato. Because of this, farmers are not able to get good profits from these crops.
Sell garlic at this price
In such a situation, the Rajasthan government has made a special announcement to benefit the productive farmers. Under this, the state government has decided to procure 46,830 metric tonnes of garlic through Rajfed. For which the price of garlic has been fixed by the Government of India at Rs 2,957 per quintal.
Online registration is required for the sale of garlic
To sell garlic at MSP, farmers have to first register themselves online. Only after this, farmers will be able to sell their crops on the designated day at the established procurement center. After the sale, it will be paid by Rajfed in the bank account online mode in 5 days.
Source: Krishi Samadhan
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