Amid ongoing protests by a section of farmers in Punjab, the Haryana government, led by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, has notified the procurement of 24 crops at the minimum support price (MSP).
Earlier this year, on August 5, ahead of the October assembly elections, the Saini-led cabinet had decided to include ten additional crops—ragi, soybean, niger seed, safflower, barley, maize, jowar, jute, copra, and summer moong—under MSP procurement, alongside the 14 crops already covered. These included paddy, bajra, kharif moong, urd, arhar, til, cotton, groundnut, wheat, mustard, gram, masur, sunflower, and sugarcane (FRP for cane is similar to MSP).
At the time, Saini had stated, “I am happy to report that over the past ten years, the state government has procured 14 crops at MSP. Now, all crops in Haryana will be purchased at MSP by our government.”
The notification issued by the Haryana government aligns with the central government’s MSP policy, which applies to all these crops. Notably, sugarcane is procured at a fair and remunerative price (FRP), a mechanism similar to MSP.
In a notification dated December 19, Haryana’s Additional Chief Secretary for Agriculture, Raja Sekhar Vundru, confirmed that the government had officially notified these crops for procurement at MSP, in line with the Centre’s announcements.
A senior official told *The Indian Express*: “Due to the Model Code of Conduct for the Assembly polls, the notification could not be issued following the Cabinet’s decision in August. With this new notification, the process is now complete, though these crops were already being procured at MSP before the formal notification.”
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