From a nutritional security perspective, the minimum support price needs to support nutrient-rich crops. Explain (200 Words)
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· The CACP recommendations on Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for the mandated six Rabi crops wheat, barley, gram, lentil, rapeseed and mustard, and safflower are arrived by considering several factors.
· Though on the surface the list looks comprehensive, there are two missing concerns given the present day challenges, necessitating a change in the MSP formula.
· Rising MSPs of water-intensive crops has resulted in some of the water conflicts over river basins as shown by recent studies in the Cauvery and the Teesta river basins.
· This is also because MSP for rice and wheat, where government agencies like Food Corporation of India play a role in procurement, has created a reference for market prices.
· Ragi is the best performer in the case of calcium production. Wheat and ragi do equally well with phosphorus production per unit of water at the margin.
· Irrespective of the season, the nutritional aspect needs to be figured into the MSP recommendations, and more nutritional crops should command higher support prices.
· In this case, though we find a clear bias towards wheat, it is amply clear that the MSP must also needs to support ragi, when viewed from a nutritional security perspective.
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