Rs 5,675 MSP for red gram crop

  Rangareddy: District Collector Lokesh has said that Rs 5,675 will be Minimum Support Price (MSP) per quintal red gram.

He held a meeting regarding the same at his office on Wednesday. The government will procure red gram through five procurement centers including Shadnagar, Amangal, Shankarpalli, Chevalla and Ibrahimpatnam.

 “Farmers should follow certain rules to sell their produce for the MSP. They should photocopies of pattadar passbook, aadhar card, bank passbook front page and certificate from agriculture officer.

 The produce should immediately be sold after harvesting the crops at one of the said procurement centers.

 Besides this, cotton procurement centres will be operated from 9am to 6pm,” he added. Joint collector Harish, agriculture officer Geetha, marketing officer and others were present.