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Centre sets up panel to study problems of sugarcane farmers
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Who really sets what cane growers earn? The FRP and CACP link GS-III farm pricing questions test
The Centre has set up a panel to study the problems of sugarcane farmers after representatives of growers from Karnataka and Maharashtra met Union Ministers and demanded higher remunerative returns. Sugarcane prices are guided by the Fair and Remunerative Price, which the Centre fixes on the recommendation of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices.
Why it matters: asked in UPSC 2015; factual, Prelims-type
What you need to know
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The Centre has set up a panel to study the problems of sugarcane farmers after representatives of growers from Karnataka and Maharashtra met Union Ministers and demanded higher remunerative returns.
Sugarcane prices are guided by the Fair and Remunerative Price, which the Centre fixes on the recommendation of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices.
ਸਰੋਤ: Topper IAS editorial (PIB / The Hindu / Indian Express)
ਮੁੱਖ ਤੱਥ
Remember these
- The Centre has set up a panel to study the problems of sugarcane farmers.
- Growers from Karnataka and Maharashtra met Union Ministers and demanded higher remunerative returns.
- Sugarcane price is guided by the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP), fixed by the Centre.
- The Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) recommends the FRP.
- FRP is the minimum price mills must pay growers for sugarcane under the Sugarcane (Control) Order, 1966.
ਪ੍ਰੀਲਿਮਜ਼ · ਮੇਨਜ਼
How the exam will ask it
ਪ੍ਰੀਲਿਮਜ਼
- The Fair and Remunerative Price of sugarcane is fixed by the Centre on the recommendation of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices.
- The CACP is an attached office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and recommends Minimum Support Prices for notified crops.
- FRP is the minimum price sugar mills must pay to cane growers; States may announce a higher State Advised Price (SAP).
- Sugarcane is a Kharif-season-planted cash crop grown mainly in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
ਮੇਨਜ਼
GS-III (Agriculture; farm pricing and support). Growers' demand for higher returns exposes the tension between a uniform FRP, rising input costs and mills' capacity to pay, further complicated by State Advised Prices and delayed dues. The new panel should examine cost-linked pricing, timely payment, revenue-sharing models and diversification into ethanol, with the way forward being transparent cost assessment and fair, predictable pricing.
PYQ connection
A question UPSC has already asked on this
The Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane is approved by the
- Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
- Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices
- Directorate of Marketing and Inspection, Ministry of Agriculture
- Agricultural Produce Market Committee
ਜਵਾਬ ਵੇਖੋ
ਜਵਾਬ: A
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Answer before you reveal
The Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane is fixed by the Centre on the recommendation of which body?
- NITI Aayog
- Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices
- Food Corporation of India
- Reserve Bank of India
ਜਵਾਬ ਵੇਖੋ
ਜਵਾਬ: B — The Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices is correct. CACP recommends the FRP of sugarcane, which the Centre then fixes.
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