Despite a decline in area, Gujarat’s peanut crop is expected to increase by 11.5%.
Gujarat is predicted to harvest 33.45 lakh tonnes (lt) of groundnuts in the Kharif season, up from 30 at the year before, representing an 11.50 percent increase. However, the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) conducted the Groundnut Kharif Crop Survey 2023, which shows that Gujarat’s groundnut acreage has decreased by 74,000 hectares (4.33 percent)….