{
 "meta": {
  "dossier": "farms",
  "frequency": "annual",
  "base": "as published",
  "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
  "source": "Reserve Bank of India, DBIE (agriculture ministry and food ministry data), via the Data Bank",
  "vintage": "2026-10-10",
  "mock": false,
  "geo": "IND",
  "latestPeriod": "2026-04",
  "releaseDate": null,
  "revisionPolicy": "Advance estimates are revised until the ministry's final estimates; final figures change rarely. The latest year is kept apart as an advance estimate, never joined to the final years.",
  "periodKind": "fy",
  "coverage": "Minimum support price, 16 crops, fair average quality, rupees per quintal, crop years from 1975-76",
  "note": "Minimum support prices announced by the government on the recommendation of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, by crop year (DBIE reports 461 and 462; the Handbook's tables 194 and 195). A crop year's MSP is announced before sowing: kharif crops in about June of the crop year's first year, rabi crops (wheat, gram, mustard, safflower) in about October, for the harvest marketed the following spring, so \"wheat 2025-26\" is the price for wheat sown in 2025 and sold from April 2026. \"Coarse cereals\" in DBIE is the maize price (the Handbook heads it Maize). Cotton is medium staple to 2005-06 and long staple from 2006-07 (H-4). Sugarcane is the statutory minimum price, later the fair and remunerative price, per quintal of cane. RBI's notes, verbatim: Notes : 1. Paddy common : From 1997-98, Minimum Support Price (MSP) is announced for two varieties of paddy - common and Grade ‘A’, as against the earlier three categories of common, fine and super fine. 2. Wheat prices for 1992-93 and 1993-94, include a Central bonus of ₹ 25 per quintal. 3. Wheat price for 2006-07 and Paddy common for year 2007-08 include an additional incentive bonus of ₹ 100 per quintal is payable over the MSP. 4. Wheat prices for 1996-97 includes a Central bonus of ₹ 60 per quintal payable up to June 30, 1997. 5. Wheat prices for 2005-06 and 2010-11 include a bonus of ₹ 50 per quintal payable over the MSP. 6. Paddy common for 2006-07 include an additional incentive bonus of ₹ 40 per quintal on procurement between October 1, 2006 to March 31, 2007. 7. Arhar, Moong and Urad for 2007-08 includes a bonus of ₹ 40 per quintal payable over and above the MSP. 8. An additional incentive bonus of ₹ 50 per quintal over the MSP included for paddy common for the years 2008-09 and 2009-10. 9. For Arhar, Moong and Urad for 2010-11 and 2011-12 an additional incentive at the rate of ₹ 500 per quintal payable during the harvest/arrival period of two months is included. 10. For Arhar, Moong and Urad for 2015-16 and 2017-18 bonus of ₹ 200 per quintal payable over and above the MSP. 11. Gram for 2015-16 includes a bonus of ₹ 75 for quintal and for 2017-18 includes a bonus of ₹ 150 per quintal on and above MSP and 2016-17 included a bonus of ₹ 200 per quintal. 12. Arhar, Moong and Urad for 2016-17 includes a bonus of ₹ 425 per quintal over and above MSP.  Sources : 1. Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India. 2. Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP). Notes : 1. For Sugarcane upto 2004-05 Statutory Minimum Price (SMP) linked to a basic recovery of 8.5 per cent of sugar with proportionate premium for every 0.1 per cent increase in recovery above that level. The SMP for 2002-03 includes the one time drought relief. 2. Minimum Support Price (MSP) of cotton for H-4. 3. Cotton from 2006-07 and onwards is long Staple. 4. Groundnut (inshell), Soyabean Yellow, Soyabean black for 2017-18 includes a bonus of ₹ 200, Sunflower seed and Safflower seed includes bonus of ₹ 100 over and above MSP. 5. Groundnut, Soyabean black, Soyabean Yellow, Rapeseed & Mustard, Sunflower seed and Safflower seed included a bonus of ₹ 100 for 2016-17.  Sources : 1 .Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India. 2. Economic Survey 2011-12, Government of India."
 },
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  "1975-04-01",
  "1976-04-01",
  "1977-04-01",
  "1978-04-01",
  "1979-04-01",
  "1980-04-01",
  "1981-04-01",
  "1982-04-01",
  "1983-04-01",
  "1984-04-01",
  "1985-04-01",
  "1986-04-01",
  "1987-04-01",
  "1988-04-01",
  "1989-04-01",
  "1990-04-01",
  "1991-04-01",
  "1992-04-01",
  "1993-04-01",
  "1994-04-01",
  "1995-04-01",
  "1996-04-01",
  "1997-04-01",
  "1998-04-01",
  "1999-04-01",
  "2000-04-01",
  "2001-04-01",
  "2002-04-01",
  "2003-04-01",
  "2004-04-01",
  "2005-04-01",
  "2006-04-01",
  "2007-04-01",
  "2008-04-01",
  "2009-04-01",
  "2010-04-01",
  "2011-04-01",
  "2012-04-01",
  "2013-04-01",
  "2014-04-01",
  "2015-04-01",
  "2016-04-01",
  "2017-04-01",
  "2018-04-01",
  "2019-04-01",
  "2020-04-01",
  "2021-04-01",
  "2022-04-01",
  "2023-04-01",
  "2024-04-01",
  "2025-04-01",
  "2026-04-01"
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    160,
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    205,
    230,
    270,
    310,
    340,
    360,
    380,
    415,
    440,
    490,
    510,
    530,
    530,
    550,
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    570,
    580,
    745,
    900,
    1050,
    1000,
    1080,
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    1310,
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   "label": "Maize",
   "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
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    515,
    525,
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    840,
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    2410
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   "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
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    "1984-04-01"
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   "gapsNote": "RBI's table prints no price for this crop in these years (a dash): no MSP was announced, or the variety was not priced."
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   "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
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   "label": "Moong",
   "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
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   "label": "Urad",
   "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
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   "name": "msp_cotton_inr_per_quintal",
   "label": "Cotton",
   "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
   "group": "Kharif",
   "crop": "cotton",
   "color": "#878D99",
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    null,
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   "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
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   "color": "#C9CED6",
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    "1981-04-01"
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   "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
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   "crop": "safflower",
   "color": "#5F6675",
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    null,
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    210,
    220,
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    240,
    250,
    255,
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    275,
    325,
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    395,
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    525,
    570,
    600,
    620,
    670,
    705,
    755,
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    900,
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    null,
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    null,
    null,
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   "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
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    220,
    230,
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    255,
    275,
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    285,
    290,
    305,
    315,
    340,
    355,
    365
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   "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
   "group": "Kharif",
   "crop": "sunflower",
   "color": "#5F6675",
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    175,
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    325,
    335,
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    850,
    900,
    950,
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    1000,
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    1500,
    1500,
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    2800,
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   "name": "msp_jute_inr_per_quintal",
   "label": "Jute",
   "unit": "inr_per_quintal",
   "group": "Kharif",
   "crop": "jute",
   "color": "#878D99",
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    141,
    150,
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    240,
    250,
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    320,
    375,
    400,
    450,
    470,
    490,
    510,
    570,
    650,
    750,
    785,
    810,
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