Govt re-appoints Vijay Paul Sharma as CACP Chairman

The Centre has once again appointed Vijay Paul Sharma as the chairman of Commission for Agricultural Prices & Price ranges (CACP) just after he relinquished the publish in May perhaps previous calendar year adhering to completion of the five-calendar year tenure.

The part of CACP chairman will be crucial in the proposed committee on the bare minimum guidance cost (MSP) and other reforms.

Sharma, a professor at the Centre for Administration in Agriculture in Indian Institute of Administration, Ahmedabad was first appointed as CACP Chairman in June 2016.

He performed a vital part in acceding to the government’s choice of repairing the MSP at 50 for every cent above the value of output. The govt-controlled overall body applied to propose the MSP centered not only on inputs charges, but also by thinking of other variables these types of as global and domestic selling prices, acreage underneath crops, and so on.

Whilst farmers have been demanding the Swaminathan Commission report on MSP be accepted, the govt agreed to the correct the MSPs at value of output on A2+FL basis adhering to which CACP started off recommending MSPs accordingly.

Naveen P Singh, a member in the CACP, has been officiating as the chairman just after Sharma’s tenure finished. The Agriculture Ministry in previous November started off the method of recruiting two users from the farming group from north and west zones, because these have been vacant for previous few a long time.

The govt is however to announce the committee on MSP and other reforms, as proposed by Key Minister Narendra Modi through his announcement on repeal of the 3 farm legal guidelines. One particular of the vital demands was lawful ensure of MSPs so that no farmer sells his develop down below a benchmark, assuring him a bare minimum return.