(a) whether cluster-bean, moth, coriander, cumin seed, fenugreek, garlic and isabgol
are important crops of Rajasthan;
(b) if so, reasons for not including these crops under minimum support price scheme;
(c) whether the Government is considering to announce the minimum support price of
these crops; and
(d) if so, the details thereof?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE (SHRI KANTI LAL BHURIA)
(a): These crops, in Rajasthan, account for around 18 percent of the total cropped area and
only around 7 percent of the total agricultural production of the State.
(b) to (d): Under the Minimum Support Price Scheme those commodities are covered which are
mostly items of mass consumption of all India nature with fairly long shelf life and/or
necessary for food/nutrition security. The Government implements the Market Intervention Scheme
(MIS) for procurement of horticultural commodities. In order to protect the growers of
horticultural commodities from distress sales in the event of bumper crop, MIS is implemented
for a particular commodity on the request of the State Government which is ready to bear 50%
loss (25% in case of North-Eastem States), if any, in its implementation.