Agencies set up 200 centres to procure pulses at MSP

The government agencies have set up 200 centres to procure pulses from farmers at the minimum support price (MSP) and will add more centres after arrival of tur dal from next month onwards. An inter-ministerial meeting was held in New Delhi on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Consumer Affairs Secretary Hem Pande to review prices and availability of pulses. “In the meeting, it was informed that government agencies — National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India, Food Corporation of India and Small Farmers’ Agribusiness Consortium — have started aggressive procurement operations to ensure MSPs to farmers after the arrival of crop in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan,” an official statement said.