{"id":6567,"date":"2023-03-25T05:10:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:08:29","slug":"msp-for-jute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/msp-for-jute\/","title":{"rendered":"MSP for Jute"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About <\/strong><strong>Jute:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jute is one of the most important natural fibres after cotton in terms of cultivation and usage<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climatic conditions required for its growth<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Temperature:<\/strong> Between 25-35\u00b0C<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rainfall:<\/strong> Around 150-250 cm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Soil Type:<\/strong> Well-drained alluvial soil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>India is the largest producer of jute followed by Bangladesh and China.<\/li>\n<li>It is mainly grown in eastern India because of the rich alluvial soil of the Ganga-Brahmaputra delta.<\/li>\n<li>In India, major jute-producing states include <strong>West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya and Tripura.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is the Minimum support price?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A minimum support price (MSP) is a <strong>minimum price<\/strong> for any crop that the Government considers as remunerative for farmers and hence deserving of \u201csupport\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>It is also the price that Government agencies pay whenever they procure a particular crop from the farmers.<\/li>\n<li>There is currently <strong>no statutory backing for these prices<\/strong>, nor any law mandating their enforcement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crops covered under MSP:<\/strong> At present, the Central Government sets <strong>MSP for 23<\/strong> crops.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>7 cereals<\/strong> (Bajra, wheat, maize, paddy barley, ragi and jowar);<\/li>\n<li><strong>5 pulses<\/strong> (tur, chana, Masur, urad and moong);<\/li>\n<li><strong>7 oilseeds<\/strong> (sunflower, mustard, niger seed, soya bean, groundnut, sesame and sunflower);<\/li>\n<li><strong>4 commercial crops<\/strong> (raw jute, cotton, copra and sugarcane).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How does the Government decide on the MSP?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Government announces the MSP at the start of each cropping season (Rabi and Kharif).<\/li>\n<li>The MSP is decided after the Government exhaustively studies the recommendations made by the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP).<\/li>\n<li>CACP is an attached office of the <strong>Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Commission for Agricultural Costs &amp; Prices?<\/h3>\n<p>The Commission for Agricultural Costs &amp; Prices (CACP) is an attached office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India. It came into existence in January 1965. Currently, the Commission comprises a Chairman, Member Secretary, one Member (Official) and two Members (Non-Official). The non-official members are representatives of the farming community and usually have an active association with the farming community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1910520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Cabinet approves Minimum Support Price (MSP) for Raw Jute for 2023 -24 season<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jute is one of the most important natural fibres after cotton in terms of cultivation and usage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}