{"id":28487,"date":"2018-10-24T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28487"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:09:42","slug":"give-legal-backing-to-msp-says-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/give-legal-backing-to-msp-says-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Give legal backing to MSP, says panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/give-legal-backing-to-msp-panel\/article24344973.ece\">Give legal backing to MSP, says panel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Recently, the centre approved Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for kharif crops.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22703 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mone.jpg?resize=430%2C345\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mone.jpg?w=430&amp;ssl=1 430w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mone.jpg?resize=150%2C120&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mone.jpg?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. The government considers A2+FL\u2019 as production cost.<\/p>\n<p>3. A2+FL costs includes family labour, but not land costs.<\/p>\n<p>4. However, some experts want comprehensive cost (C2) to be considered for MSP. C2 includes land costs. MSP based on C2 cost will be higher than the proposed figure.<\/p>\n<p>5. The prices were recommended by the government panel.<\/p>\n<p>6. The panel has also recommended that the Centre bring out a legislation which provides legal backup to farmers to sell their produce at those prices.<\/p>\n<p>7. The Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices , statutory panel under Ministry of Agriculture \u00a0makes the recommendations for MSP for 23 kharif and rabi crops.<\/p>\n<p>8. However, its \u00a0suggestions are not binding on the government.<\/p>\n<p>9. In its report titled \u2018Price Policy for Kharif Crops for the Marketing Season 2018-19,\u2019 the CACP highlighted that the procurement mechanism is broken for most crops and for most farmers.<\/p>\n<p>10. However, the farmers of remote areas do not have sufficient access to APMCs and they sold their product at local \u2018haat\u2019s where their produce is sold below MSP.<\/p>\n<p>11. Strong procurement operations need to be expanded to neglected regions especially eastern and north eastern regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Give legal backing to MSP, says panel \u00a0News: Recently, the centre approved Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for kharif crops. Important facts: 2. The government considers A2+FL\u2019 as production cost. 3. A2+FL costs includes family labour, but not land costs. 4. However, some experts want comprehensive cost (C2) to be considered for MSP. C2 includes land&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/give-legal-backing-to-msp-says-panel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give legal backing to MSP, says panel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}