Commission for Agricultural Costs and
Prices’ (CACP), set up with a view to
evolve a balanced and integrated price
structure, recommends MSPs of 23 crops.These include seven cereal crops (paddy,
wheat, jowar, bajra, maize, ragi and barley),
five pulse crops (gram, tur, moong, urad
and lentil), seven oilseeds (groundnut,
sunflower seed, soybean, rapeseed-mustard,
safflower, nigerseed and seasmum), copra
(dried coconut), cotton, jute and Fair and
Remunerative Price (FRP) of Sugarcane
CACP is
called upon to ensure that the production
patterns are broadly in line with the
overall needs (demand) of the economy.
CACP submits its recommendations to
the government in the form of Price Policy
Reports every year, separately for five
groups of commodities namely Kharif crops,
Rabi crops, Sugarcane, Raw Jute and Copra
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