HPS Groundnuts

Abstract

Hand-picked and selected (HPS) groundnuts have very large potential in domestic as well as international markets. India is one of the largest producers of groundnuts along with the USA, China and Argentina. Groundnuts are an agricultural produce and 2 crops are taken every year viz. winter and summer. But winter crop is the mainstay contributing more than 70% of the annual crop. Gujarat, more particularly the Saurashtra region, is famous for groundnuts along with Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The Saurashtra variety is famous all over the world due to its crunchy texture, nutty flavour and big size. Hence, the location has to be somewhere in Saurashtra and nearer to the groundnut producing centres like Rajkot, Gondal, Junagadh, Veraval, Dhari etc.