Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices

Advisory body under Government of India

Department of Scientific Research

TypeAdvisory bodyJurisdictionIndiaHeadquartersDelhiEmployeesClassifiedAgency executive

Vijay Paul Sharma ^[1], Chairperson

Parent departmentMinistry of Agriculture & Farmers WelfareWebsitehttps://cacp.da.gov.in

Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) is a decentralised agency of the Government of India. It was established in 1965^[2] as the Agricultural Prices Commission, and was given its present name in 1985.^[3] It is an advisory body, not statutory, attached to the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India.

Mission

The commission was established to recommend Minimum Support Prices (MSPs), to motivate cultivators and farmers to adopt the latest technology in order to optimise the use of resources and increase productivity.^[3]^[4]

Composition

Currently, the Commission consists of^[5] -

a Chairman
Member Secretary
one Member (Official)
two Members (Non-Official)

The non-official members are representatives of the farming community and usually have an active association with the farming community.

Recommendations

As of now, CACP recommends MSPs of 22 commodities:

7 cereals: paddy, wheat, maize, sorghum, pearl millet, barley and ragi,
5 pulses: gram, tur, moong, urad, lentil,
7 oilseeds: groundnut, rapeseed-mustard, soyabean, sesamum, sunflower, safflower, niger seed and
3 commercial crops: copra, cotton and raw jute (sugarcane - Fair and remunerative Price )

References

^ "Current Chairman and Members".
^ "The resolution passed for the creation of the commission".
^ ^a ^b "The Commission of Agricultural Costs & Prices Organisation". nic.in. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
^ "Cane farmers association urges government to fix minimum support price for sugar". TET. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
^ "Composition of CACP". Retrieved 19 April 2019.