Govt re-appoints Vijay Paul Sharma as CACP Chairman

The Centre has again appointed Vijay Paul Sharma as the chairman of Fee for Agricultural Fees & Prices (CACP) just after he relinquished the write-up in Could very last calendar year pursuing completion of the 5-calendar year tenure.

The function of CACP chairman will be essential in the proposed committee on the bare minimum assist value (MSP) and other reforms.

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

He performed a important function in acceding to the government’s choice of fixing the MSP at 50 for each cent over the cost of production. The federal government-controlled human body employed to advocate the MSP centered not only on inputs fees, but also by taking into consideration other factors these kinds of as world-wide and domestic selling prices, acreage under crops, and many others.

Whilst farmers had been demanding the Swaminathan Fee report on MSP be acknowledged, the federal government agreed to the correct the MSPs at cost of production on A2+FL basis pursuing which CACP commenced recommending MSPs appropriately.

Naveen P Singh, a member in the CACP, has been officiating as the chairman just after Sharma’s tenure ended. The Agriculture Ministry in very last November commenced the procedure of recruiting two associates from the farming neighborhood from north and west zones, since these had been vacant for very last handful of decades.

The federal government is but to announce the committee on MSP and other reforms, as proposed by Primary Minister Narendra Modi throughout his announcement on repeal of the 3 farm rules. One particular of the important demands was authorized assurance of MSPs so that no farmer sells his produce down below a benchmark, assuring him a bare minimum return.