Lok Sabha Question No. 1414 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-09
Subject: Increase in the MSP
Ministry: AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
Asked by: Shri Eatala Rajender

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1414

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 09 TH  DECEMBER, 2025

## INCREASE IN THE MSP

## 1414. SHRI EATALA RAJENDER

Will the Minister of AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE क ृ िष एवं िकसान कʞाण मंũी be pleased to state:

(a) the details of increase in the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for various items compared to the last 10 years as part of its efforts to boost domestic output and ensure remunerative prices to farmers in the kharif and rabi seasons aimed at ensuring remunerative prices for farmers and incentivising crop diversification?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE FOR AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE

क ृ िष एवं िकसान कʞाण राǛ मंũी (SHRI RAMNATH THAKUR)

- (a):    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.

The Union Budget for 2018-19 had announced the pre-determined principle to keep MSPs  at  levels  of  at  least  one  and  half  times  of  the  cost  of  production.  Accordingly, Government had increased MSPs for all mandated Kharif, Rabi and other Commercial crops with a minimum return of 50 percent over all India weighted average cost of production from year 2018-19 onwards.The details of increased MSP in the year 2025-26 as compared to the year 2015-16 are given at Annexure.

Increased MSP has benefited farmers of the country which are evident from data of procurement and MSP amount paid to the farmers. The details of procurement and MSP amount paid to farmers during 2024-25 (Crop Year) are given as under:

| Total Procurement (In LMT)   |   Total MSP Value (In Lakh Crore) |
|------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
| 1,223                        |                              3.47 |

## Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) of Lok Sabha Untarred Question No.  1414 due for reply on 09.12.2025

Minimum Support Price (Marketing Season-wise) (₹/quintal)

| Commodities            | KMS 2015-16   | KMS 2025-26   |
|------------------------|---------------|---------------|
| KHARIF CROPS           |               |               |
| Paddy (Common)         | 1410          | 2369          |
| Paddy (Grade 'A')      | 1450          | 2389          |
| Jowar (Hybrid)         | 1570          | 3699          |
| Jowar (Maldandi)       | 1590          | 3749          |
| Bajra                  | 1275          | 2775          |
| Ragi                   | 1650          | 4886          |
| Maize                  | 1325          | 2400          |
| Arhar                  | 4625          | 8000          |
| Moong                  | 4850          | 8768          |
| Urad                   | 4625          | 7800          |
| Cotton (Medium Staple) | 3800          | 7710          |
| Cotton (Long Staple)   | 4100          | 8110          |
| Groundnut              | 4030          | 7263          |
| Sunflower Seed         | 3800          | 7721          |
| Soyabean Yellow        | 2600          | 5328          |
| Sesamum                | 4700          | 9846          |
| Nigerseed              | 3650          | 9537          |
| RABI CROPS             | RMS 2016-17   | RMS 2026-27   |
| Wheat                  | 1525          | 2585          |
| Barley                 | 1225          | 2150          |
| Gram                   | 3500          | 5875          |
| Masur                  | 3400          | 7000          |
| Rapeseed& mustard      | 3350          | 6200          |
| Safflower              | 3300          | 6540          |

KMS- Kharif Marketing Season

RMS- Rabi Marketing Season

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