Gujarat farmers who want to sell groundnut, moong, urad or soybean to the government at the minimum support price (MSP) this kharif season can register from 10 September to 9 October. This year registration runs through the state’s Farmer Registry, on the gjfr.agristack.gov.in portal or the Farmer Registry Gujarat mobile app, Gujarat Samachar and TV9 Gujarati reported. Farmers can also register free of charge through the village operator at their e-gram centre or at a Common Service Centre. Agriculture Minister Jitu Vaghani announced the window, and the purchases fall under the Centre’s PM-AASHA price support scheme.
This year’s support prices
The 2026-27 rates per quintal, set against last season’s figures as Gujarat Samachar’s English edition reported them in August 2025:
- Groundnut: Rs 7,517, up Rs 254 from Rs 7,263 (about 3.5%)
- Soybean: Rs 5,708, up Rs 380 from Rs 5,328 (about 7.1%)
- Urad: Rs 8,200, up Rs 400 from Rs 7,800 (about 5.1%)
- Moong: Rs 8,780, up Rs 12 from Rs 8,768
Soybean and urad growers get the largest increases. Moong’s rate has barely moved.
What changed from last year
Last season farmers registered on the e-Samruddhi portal between 1 and 15 September, and the state later extended that deadline to 22 September. This year the window runs a full month from the start.
The bigger change comes at the counter. According to the TV9 Gujarati and Gujarat Samachar reports, a farmer now needs a Farmer Registry ID, Aadhaar authentication, a bank account seeded with Aadhaar for the direct benefit transfer, and the survey numbers of the land being declared already linked in the Farmer Registry. If your registry record lists only some of your plots, you will need to correct it before the MSP registration can cover the crop from the missing land.
Why the numbers could be large again
Last season the scheme drew far more groundnut growers than the one before. By 20 January, 9.31 lakh farmers had registered for groundnut, against 3.74 lakh a year earlier, and the state had bought about 18 lakh tonnes of kharif produce worth Rs 12,965 crore, IANS reported. That season also introduced Aadhaar-based biometric or face authentication at procurement centres. Purchases ran from 9 November 2025 to 6 February 2026.
This year’s crop follows an uneven monsoon. By 2 September Saurashtra and Kutch had received 36% less rain than normal, against a 4% shortfall in mainland Gujarat, as we reported earlier this month. Saurashtra grows most of Gujarat’s groundnut, so yields in Rajkot, Junagadh, Jamnagar and neighbouring districts will shape how much growers bring to government centres and how much they sell in the open market.
What farmers should do now
- Check your Farmer Registry record on the portal or app and confirm every survey number you cultivate appears in it.
- Ask your bank to confirm that your account is Aadhaar-seeded, since the state pays only by DBT.
- Register early in the window so that any gap in your registry record can be fixed before 9 October.
What to watch
The state has not yet announced when purchases will begin. Last year they started on 9 November. The next markers will be that start date, the number of purchase centres opened in Saurashtra, and whether registrations approach last season’s 10 lakh farmers by the time the window closes.
Sources: Gujarat Samachar, TV9 Gujarati, Webdunia Hindi, IANS via Prokerala, Gujarat Samachar English
This report was written with AI assistance from the publicly reported sources linked here; each fact was cross-checked against at least two of them.