Talk:Minimum support price (India)

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The minimum support price (MSP) is an agricultural product price, set by the Government of India to purchase directly from the farmer. This is not enforceable by law. By definition, this rate is to safeguard the farmer to a minimum profit for the harvest, if the open market has less price than the cost incurred. The Indian government sets the price for 23 commodities twice a year.

MSP is fixed on the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) since 2009.

Jargon-loading

DiplomatTesterMan, I don't think it helps to jargon-load the lead. It would be better to cover them in the body, and explain what these schemes are. Follow MOS:LEAD please. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 20:37, 23 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Liquidated intro jargon; easy does it. Getting there. DTM (talk) 11:57, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

advisory agricultural product price is quite impenetrable. I see no use outside of this article. TrangaBellam (talk) 13:34, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You wrote, Save five or six states, due to lack of implementation and enforcement, it does not matter to the farmer what MSP has been announced as the farmer is not going to be renumerated at such prices, leaving the whole process merely a paper one, with no benefit to [the] farmer, consumer or nation.

This was cited to a 2003 "commentary" by one agricultural economist. However, (Gupta, Khera, and Narayanan 2021) reject this dated evidence. TrangaBellam (talk) 13:42, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@TrangaBellam:; advisory agricultural product price changed to advisory price signal. Even I am not happy with this but it is less wordy; even simply "advisory price" will work, "administered advisory price". I have added statistics related to awareness of MSP and implementation in the form of product bought at MSP and removed that line Save five or six states. I liked these comments, any others? DTM (talk) 11:03, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Short description

@TrangaBellam: This is the short description:

Instrument of agriculture price policy in India

Does it seem alright? DTM (talk) 12:30, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Minimum support price of india

The minimum support price (MSP) is the minimum price for select crops raised in kharif and rabi seasons that the Government of India considers as remunerative for farmers and hence deserves support. This is different from procurement price and issue price. It is generally announced before the sowing/planting season.[1] It is approved by the government and aims to safeguard the farmer to a minimum profit for the harvest while at the same time increasing food security in the country.[2][3] MSP was initially an incentive for farmers to adopt technology with an aim of increasing the productivity of agricultural land in the 1960s, however in the 2000s it is seen as a market intervention and farmer income scheme.[4][5] The effectiveness of such a price policy has varied widely between states and commodities.[6][7] Awareness among farmers of the existence of an MSP is poor at 23%, while awareness of MSP procurement agencies is also poor with only about 20–25% of wheat and paddy produce being sold at MSP.[8][9] The Indian government sets the price for about two dozen commodities twice a year.[10][11] MSP is fixed on the recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP),[12][13] an apex advisory body for pricing policy under the Ministry of Agriculture.[14] CACP in turn recommends the pricing according to a diverse range of factors including national requirements, available resources, farmer wages, cost of living and product competitiveness.[15] However, not all recommendations of CACP are adopted, sometimes, there can be significant difference with the price approved by the government.[16] Food Corporation of India (FCI) and the National Agricultural Co-operative Marketing Federation (NAFED) are involved in implementing the MSP at the state level.[16] While providing a support price to farmers, MSP also supports the public distribution system wh@ 2409:4080:8DBC:5C88:0:0:308:E401 (talk) 04:30, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]