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After crop damage due to unseasonal rain, Gujarat govt declares farmer relief package worth Rs 10,000 crore

The announcement came two days before the government is to begin procurement by Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Kharif produce such as groundnuts, moong, urad and soybean, from farmers worth over Rs 15,000 crore.

2 min readNov 7, 2025 09:25 PM IST

The current rains have mostly impacted farmers in Saurashtra and South Gujarat where the Kharif crops were ready for harvest. (file)

The Gujarat government declared a relief package of Rs 10,000 crore for farmers whose crops were damaged in the unseasonal rains which Chief minister Bhupendra Patel described as “the worst in two decades”.

The announcement came two days before the government is to begin procurement by Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Kharif produce such as groundnuts, moong, urad and soybean, from farmers worth over Rs 15,000 crore.

“I and my ministers took a tour of the affected districts to meet the farmers and understand their situation. The government, with full sensitivity, stands by the farmers in this time of natural calamity”, CM Patel was quoted as saying in a statement.

The Congress criticised the decision, calling it a “mockery”. Congress Seva Dal chief Lalji Desai said in a video statement, “We expected an announcement of at least Rs one lakh crore since the CM himself went to the field in an apparent show, but this is a mockery…Considering that more than one crore people are directly or indirectly associated with farming as their means of livelihood and counting 4.5 members in a family, this package means each one will get only Rs 22,000″. Desai said the government had done this seeing the “huge response” to the Congress’s Kisan Akrosh Yatra.

The package comes within weeks of the government having declared a relief package of Rs 947 crore for damage incurred to crops in the extended monsoon rains of August and September, the worst districts being hit including Junagadh, Panchmahal, Kutch, Patan and the new district of Vav-Tharad.

The current rains have mostly impacted farmers in Saurashtra and South Gujarat where the Kharif crops were ready for harvest.

Yield from at least 42 lakh hectares of land across 16,000 villages is estimated to have been impacted by the rains in October, as per the government.

Ritu Sharma

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