The NDA government has not only fixed the Minimum Support Price of crops at double their cost of production but has also increased procurement four-fold compared to the UPA government, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in the Rajya Sabha on Friday (December 5, 2025).
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Responding to supplementaries during Question Hour in the Upper House regarding Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops, Mr. Chouhan said the previous UPA government had refused to give a 50 per cent hike over the cost of production of crops as recommended by the Swaminathan Commission.
However, the Modi government in 2019 decided to accept these recommendations and offer MSP with a 50% margin over the production cost, he added.
Raising the issue of MSP, Mukul Balkrishna Wasnik, Congress MP from Rajasthan, began the debate questioning whether farmers were protesting for a legal guarantee under MSP, whether the govt was considering any law on this, and whether it was ready to provide such guarantee.
