Registration for safflower procurement to begin soon

The State government will soon start registering farmers for procuring safflower through the system of market intervention to arrest fall in price.

The Department of Agriculture Marketing has fixed the procurement price at ₹5,940 per quintal. Procurement centres will be put up in safflower-growing districts like Bidar, Dharwad, Davangere, Gadag, Vijayapura, Kalaburagi, Chitradurga, Koppal, and Belagavi.

Minister Shivanand Patil said in a release that a maximum of 20 quintals will be purchased from a farmer, at the average of five quintals per acre per farmer. The purchase price will be deposited to the bank account of the farmer.

Registration can be made in the primary agriculture cooperative societies, farmer producer companies or taluk agriculture cooperative societies by submitting their Farmers Registration and Unified Beneficiary Registration System Identity (FRUITS ID) Number.