The Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices is mandated to advise the Government on MSP of how many crops.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → 23
The Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), an attached office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, was set up in 1965 as the Agricultural Prices Commission and renamed in 1985. It recommends minimum support prices for 22 mandated crops and the fair and remunerative price for sugarcane, 23 crops in all:
7 cereals — paddy, wheat, maize, jowar, bajra, barley, ragi
5 pulses — gram, tur (arhar), moong, urad, masur (lentil)
7 oilseeds — groundnut, rapeseed-mustard, soyabean, sesamum, sunflower seed, safflower, nigerseed
4 commercial crops — copra, sugarcane, cotton, raw jute
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs takes the final decision on these prices.