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Aditya AgarwalAIR 1745407330587· 2024

Question 13GS2GS2

"MSP को एक निर्देश उपाय किसानों को आकस्मिक मूल्य नीचतन के आसन से बचाने के लिए है।" क्या आपको लगता है कि MSP को बेनामीकरण करने से किसानों को आकस्मिक आघातों से बचाया जा सकता? MSP आघात लगत को प्रभावी बनाने के लिए क्या अन्य बीसेस उपाय किए जा सकते हैं? (15 अंक, 250 शब्द) / "MSP is to protect farmers from sudden price shock". Do you think legalization of MSP can insure farmers from sudden price shocks? What are the other measures which can be taken to make MSP-led procurement effective?

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MSP - Minimum Support Price is the minimum amount the government pays for the procurement of 22 crops. It has announced.

Benefits of MSP:

Assured farm income
Reduce vulnerabilities from price shock
Sends signal to the markets regarding prices
Farmers get the knowledge on which crop is to be produced

Legalisation of MSP will lead to:

Benefits:

Lead assurance to farmers to their produce
FCI legally obliged to purchase from farmers
This will reduce the vulnerabilities of farmers from price shock

Issues:

Inability of the government to legalize MSP procurement (fiscal difficulty to produce costs and store)
Distorts the market mechanism
Over production of specific cash - market failure
High inflation in other non-legalized MSP crops

Other Measures that can be taken are:

i) Income support to farmers by reducing MSP and other price subsidies

(Eg) Extension of PM KISAN

ii) R&D in farming - improve productivity:

no more productivity increase since green revolution
(Eg) As per Prof. Ashok Gulati - ₹1 expenditure in R&D₹5 output where ₹1 expenditure in subsidy₹0.7 output

iii) Shift of workers from agriculture to manufacturing sector — improve incomes

iv) Employee Linked Incentive scheme (ELI) along with PLI aims to achieve this

v) Crop diversification and reduction in cultivated corwell phenomenon

vi) Agricultural procuring to improve incomes (Eg) Tomato, Onion

vii) Investment in Storage Infrastructure

(Eg) PACS grain storage initiative

viii) Policy certainty - banning of onion exports. Minimum export prices - hurt farmer income

viii) Promotion of alternate technique such as organic farming - ZBNF

ix) Technological changes - from mechanisation use of nano urea

x) Adoption of beeting - sweet revolution to augment income

Legalisation of MSP - rather than being benefical will lead to spiralling of issues ranging from market distortion to fiscal deficit. Achieving food and nutritional security requires other measures.

[Additional continuation of measures and policy recommendations related to MSP legalization and food security]

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Conclusion

Legalisation of MSP - rather than being beneficial will lead to spiralling of issues ranging from market distortion to fiscal deficit. Achieving food and nutritional security requires other measures.

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Diagram

Diagram showing 'MSP - Minimum Support Price' at top, with benefits branch showing 'Assured farm income', 'Reduce vulnerabilities from price shock', 'Sends signal to the markets regarding prices', 'Farmers get the knowledge on which crop is to be produced'

Examiner score
1.4/10

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Topper

Aditya Agarwal

AIR 17454073305872024

Subject & Paper

GS2GS2

Topic

Government Policies and Interventions - Design, Implementation and Issues

Government Schemes and Policies

Agricultural Support and Price Management

Writing Stats

359

Total words

17

Paragraphs

11

Bullets