Lok Sabha Question No. 2404 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-10
Subject: MSP for Crops
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Raja A

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE & FARMERS WELFARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & FARMERS WELFARE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO-2404

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 10 th  DECEMBER, 2024

## MSP FOR CROPS

## 2404. SHRI RAJA A:

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of crops on which MSP was given by the Government during the last five years and the price thereof, crop-wise;
- (b) the crops and the quantity of the crops purchased by Government during the last five years along with the number of farmers benefited, the details thereof, year-wise, crop-wise and Statewise ;
- (c)  whether  the  Government  had  assessed  the  average  input  cost  of  those  crops  and compared it with the Swaminathan Committee recommendations of C2 plus 50% ; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof, year-wise, crop-wise, and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

The MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE क ृ िष एवं िकसान कʞाण राǛ मंũी (SHRI RAM NATH THAKUR)

- (a):            The  Details  of  number of  crops  on which  Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) was given by the Government during the last five years and the price/MSP rates thereof, cropwise are given at Annexure I .
- (b):     The details of year-wise and crop-wise quantity of crops procured and  the number of farmers benefited  from the year 2019-20 to 2024-25 are given at Annexure II.

(c) &(d): Every year, Government fixes Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for 22 mandated agricultural  crops  for  the  country  as  a  whole,  based  on  the  recommendations  of Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP), after considering the views of State Governments and Central Ministries/Departments concerned. While recommending MSP, CACP  considers  important factors like cost of production, overall  demand-supply conditions, domestic and international prices, intercrop price parity, terms of trade between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, likely effect on the rest of the economy, besides ensuring rational utilization of land, water and other production resources  and a minimum of 50 percent as the margin over cost of production.

National Commission on Farmers (NCF), constituted under the Chairmanship of Prof.  M.S.  Swaminathan  in  2004,  inter  alia,  recommended  that  Minimum  Support  Price (MSPs) should be at least 50 percent more than the weighted average cost of production. To give effect to this recommendation, Government, in its Union Budget for 2018-19, had made an announcement to keep MSP at a level of minimum one and half times of the cost of  production  as a  pre-determined  principle.  Accordingly,  MSPs  for all  mandated  Kharif, Rabi and other commercial crops have been fixed with a margin of at least 50 per cent over weighted average cost of production.

Annexure I

## Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Untarred Question No. 2404 due for reply on 10.12.2024

## Minimum Support Price (marketing season-wise)

(Rs. per quintal)

|       |                        | Marketing Season   | Marketing Season   | Marketing Season   | Marketing Season   | Marketing Season   |
|-------|------------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
| SL.NO | KHARIF CROPS           | 2020-21            | 2021-22            | 2022-23            | 2023-24            | 2024-25            |
|       | PADDY (Common)         | 1868               | 1940               | 2040               | 2183               | 2300               |
| 1     | PADDY (Grade 'A')      | 1888               | 1960               | 2060               | 2203               | 2320               |
|       | JOWAR (Hybrid)         | 2620               | 2738               | 2970               | 3180               | 3371               |
| 2     | JOWAR (Maldandi)       | 2640               | 2758               | 2990               | 3225               | 3421               |
| 3     | BAJRA                  | 2150               | 2250               | 2350               | 2500               | 2625               |
| 4     | RAGI                   | 3295               | 3377               | 3578               | 3846               | 4290               |
| 5     | MAIZE                  | 1850               | 1870               | 1962               | 2090               | 2225               |
| 6     | TUR (ARHAR)            | 6000               | 6300               | 6600               | 7000               | 7550               |
| 7     | MOONG                  | 7196               | 7275               | 7755               | 8558               | 8682               |
| 8     | URAD                   | 6000               | 6300               | 6600               | 6950               | 7400               |
| 9     | GROUNDNUT              | 5275               | 5550               | 5850               | 6377               | 6783               |
| 10    | SUNFLOWER SEED         | 5885               | 6015               | 6400               | 6760               | 7280               |
| 11    | SOYABEEN (yellow)      | 3880               | 3950               | 4300               | 4600               | 4892               |
| 12    | SESAMUM                | 6855               | 7307               | 7830               | 8635               | 9267               |
| 13    | NIGERSEED              | 6695               | 6930               | 7287               | 7734               | 8717               |
|       | COTTON (Medium Staple) | 5515               | 5726               | 6080               | 6620               | 7121               |
| 14    | COTTON (Long Staple)   | 5825               | 6025               | 6380               | 7020               | 7521               |
| RABI  | RABI                   | Marketing Season   | Marketing Season   | Marketing Season   | Marketing Season   | Marketing Season   |
|       |                        | 2021-22            | 2022-23            | 2023-24            | 2024-25            | 2025-26            |
| 15    | WHEAT                  | 1975               | 2015               | 2125               | 2275               | 2425               |
| 16    | BARLEY                 | 1600               | 1635               | 1735               | 1850               | 1980               |
| 17    | GRAM                   | 5100               | 5230               | 5335               | 5440               | 5650               |
| 18    | MASUR (LENTIL)         | 5100               | 5500               | 6000               | 6425               | 6700               |
| 19    | RAPESEED & MUSTARD     | 4650               | 5050               | 5450               | 5650               | 5950               |
| 20    | SAFFLOWER              | 5327               | 5441               | 5650               | 5800               | 5940               |
|       |                        | Season             | Season             | Season             | Season             | Season             |
|       | COMMERCIAL CROPS       | 2020               | 2021               | 2022               | 2023               | 2024               |
|       | COPRA (Milling)        | 9960               | 10335              | 10590              | 10860              | 11160              |
| 21    | COPRA ( Ball )         | 10300              | 10600              | 11000              | 11750              | 12000              |
|       |                        | 2020-21            | 2021-22            | 2022-23            | 2023-24            | 2024-25            |
| 22    | JUTE                   | 4225               | 4500               | 4750               | 5050               | 5335               |

## Annexure referred to in reply to part (b) of Lok Sabha Untarred Question No. 2404 due for reply on 10.12.2024

The details of year-wise and crop-wise quantity of crops procured and  the number of farmers benefited

(Procurement in Lakh Metric Tonnes)

| SL No.   | Commodities       | 2019-20      | 2019-20            | 2020-21      | 2020-21            | 2021-22      | 2021-22            | 2022-23      | 2022-23            | 2023-24      | 2023-24            | 2024-25*     | 2024-25*           |
|----------|-------------------|--------------|--------------------|--------------|--------------------|--------------|--------------------|--------------|--------------------|--------------|--------------------|--------------|--------------------|
| SL No.   | KHARIF CROPS      | Procure ment | Farmers benefitted | Procureme nt | Farmers benefitted | Procureme nt | Farmers benefitted | Procurem ent | Farmers benefitted | Procurem ent | Farmers benefitted | Procurem ent | Farmers benefitted |
| 1        | PADDY             | 770.93       | 12459354           | 895.66       | 13112458           | 857.30       | 12679650           | 808.45       | 12497077           | 782.20       | 10657831           | 198.80       | 1180316            |
| 2        | JOWAR             | 0.23         | 7735               | 1.46         | 41507              | 1.57         | 41362              | 0.85         | 18187              | 3.23         | 17874              | 0.08         | 26550              |
| 3        | BAJRA             | 1.00         | 0                  | 3.62         | 44166              | 0.13         | 5010               | 1.82         | 48536              | 6.96         | 207357             | 1.74         | 169230             |
| 4        | MAIZE             | 1.15         | 8                  | 2.05         | 55675              | 0.23         | 6641               | 0.13         | 43                 | 0.05         | 917                | 0.00         | 5800               |
| 5        | RAGI              | 1.93         | 93026              | 4.94         | 231211             | 4.37         | 308696             | 4.57         | 310519             | 2.31         | 124550             | 0.00         | 327370             |
| 6        | ARHAR(Tur)        | 5.47         | 567327             | 0.11         | 7690               | 0.36         | 24084              | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  |
| 7        | MOONG             | 1.47         | 105864             | 1.67         | 84732              | 3.63         | 195338             | 4.02         | 169442             | 4.02         | 168351             | 0.43         | 39820              |
| 8        | URAD              | 0.00         | 99                 | 0.01         | 1378               | 0.02         | 2585               | 0.00         | 27                 | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 12                 |
| 9        | GROUNDNUT         | 7.23         | 347446             | 2.86         | 152726             | 1.50         | 76647              | 0.07         | 3668               | 0.76         | 27711              | 0.00         | 92                 |
| 10       | SUNFLOWER SEED    | 0.05         | 3101               | 0.04         | 2713               | 0.02         | 1200               | 0.07         | 5370               | 0.16         | 11615              | 0.02         | 2260               |
| 11       | SOYABEAN          | 0.11         | 4550               | 0.00         | 3                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.07         | 4086               | 0.49         | 27221              |
| 12       | SESAMUM           | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  |
| 13       | NIGERSEED         | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  |
| 14       | COTTON            | 17.88        | 2149977            | 15.62        | 1914020            | 0.00         | 200                | 0.00         | 0                  | 5.58         | 724640             | 0.00         |                    |
|          | RABI CROPS        |              |                    |              |                    |              |                    |              |                    |              |                    |              |                    |
| 15       | WHEAT             | 389.93       | 4335972            | 433.44       | 4919891            | 187.92       | 1783192            | 262.02       | 2128985            | 266.05       | 2248725            | 0.00         | 0                  |
| 16       | BARLEY            | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  |
| 17       | GRAM              | 21.58        | 1108514            | 6.38         | 402694             | 26.29        | 1168730            | 23.53        | 1029390            | 0.43         | 15409              | 0.00         | 0                  |
| 18       | MASUR(Lentil)     | 0.01         | 1898               | 0.00         | 39                 | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.76         | 44799              | 2.49         | 116907             | 0.00         | 0                  |
| 19       | RAPESEED/ MUSTARD | 8.04         | 318477             | 0.00         | 4                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 11.14        | 453897             | 12.08        | 521946             | 0.00         | 0                  |
| 20       | SAFFLOWER         | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.00         | 0                  | 0.02         | 1292               | 0.00         | 280                | 0.00         | 0                  |
|          | Commercial Crops  |              |                    |              |                    |              |                    |              |                    |              |                    |              |                    |
| 21       | COPRA             | 0.00         | 935                | 0.05         | 3961               | 0.00         | 115                | 0.41         | 19413              | 1.34         | 91031              | 0.97         | 0                  |
| 22       | JUTE              | 0.15         | 29685.17           | 0.01         | 1435.2906          | 0.00         | 835.99667          | 0.42         | 81511              | 1.32         | 263908.66          | 0.38         | 0                  |

*As on 06/12/2024

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Annexure II