Overview
- The state will buy groundnut, moong, urad and soybean worth over Rs 15,000 crore at minimum support prices starting November 9.
- Government data cite heavy rain in 239 talukas across 33 districts, affecting crops on more than 10 lakh hectares.
- Other assessments report losses across roughly 42 lakh hectares and about 16,000 villages, with damage concentrated in Saurashtra.
- Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel ordered a formal survey on October 29, deployed hundreds of teams that have covered about 70% of the damaged area, and directed that no farmer be left without assistance.
- The package follows a Rs 947-crore payout in August–September for earlier flood-hit talukas, highlighting repeated weather shocks to Gujarat’s farm sector this year.