New Delhi, March 27 -- Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has appealed to the state governments not to purchase any crop of farmers below the Minimum Support Price (MSP).

Chouhan, while speaking to reporters, reiterated that the BJP-led Centre is dedicated to ensuring that the purchase price of the crops does not go below the MSP price and expected the same cooperation from state governments in these purchases.

The Minister further stated that the Centre has given permission to the state governments to buy Toor, Masoor and Urad dal, adding that the work of purchase of Toor Dal is going on in states like Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Telangana through National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federat...