Panel for increasing paddy MSP

At a time when the recently constituted UNPA is campaigning against the UPA Government for its failure to provide remunerative prices...

At a time when the recently constituted UNPA is campaigning against the UPA Government for its failure to provide remunerative prices for farmers’ produce, the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) has recommended the Government to raise the Minimum

Support Price (MSP) for normal grade paddy from current price of Rs 645 per quintal to Rs 1,000.

The recommendation is likely to be welcomed by agitating UNPA leaders, including Chandrababu Naidu and Mulayam Singh Yadav, who had petitioned the CACP Chairman early January seeking to raise the price to Rs 1,000 per quintal.

In fact, apart from the UNPA leaders, all leaders and chief ministers from the south, including Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu chief ministers Y S R Reddy and K Karunanidhi, respectively, had been demanding raising the paddy MSP to Rs 1,000 per quintal since the time the Government decided to raise wheat MSP to Rs 1,000 per quintal.

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