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Comparing the existent expenses incurred successful farming and the minimum enactment terms (MSP) announced by the Union Government connected 20 large crops, the Left-leaning farmers’ organisation All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) said connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) that farmers suffered a nonaccomplishment of ₹3 lakh crore successful 2024-25 and an estimated ₹24 lakh crore betwixt 2016 and 2025 owed to the spread successful income and expenses. The Union Agriculture Ministry, however, refuted this complaint and said MSP is finalised aft discussions with farmers’ organisations.
Countering the Union government’s statement that farmers who cultivated crops specified arsenic paddy, cotton, soybean, maize, groundnut, wheat, gram, arhur (tur), rapeseed, jower, urad, moong, bajra, lentil, ragi, sesamum, barley, sunflower, safflower and nigerseed were getting 50% much than the outgo incurred (C2+50%) arsenic per the M.S. Swaminathan committee formula, AIKS leaders Vijoo Krishnan and P. Krishna Prasad told reporters astatine a property league connected Thursday.
“Considering the crops including milk, full commercialized crops, vegetables, fruits, meat, egg, food etc. retired of the existent MSP strategy and procurement, the losses Indian peasantry suffers is manifold higher, starring to indebtedness, suicides regular connected an mean of 31 farmers; each this is to guarantee firm nett nether the corporate-communal BJP-led NDA regime,” the leaders said.
When asked astir this basal taken by the AIKS, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the MSP is decided by the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) aft consultations with farmers’ organisations. “The Cabinet approved the CACP’s recommendations,” helium said.
The AIKS said successful the past 9 years (2016–2025), farmers increasing the 20 large crops person collectively mislaid an estimated ₹24 lakh crore successful income solely due to the fact that the C2+50% look was not implemented. “A important fig of farmers merchantability their nutrient beneath MSP, peculiarly successful regions without an effectual procurement system, meaning that the existent standard of farmers’ losses is acold greater than what the figures suggest. Among the 20 crops, paddy, being the astir wide cultivated crop, accounts for the largest losses — astir ₹97,000 crore successful 2024–25 alone, and implicit ₹7 lakh crore cumulatively during the past 9 years,” they added.
In Bihar, they said, paddy, wheat, and maize farmers unneurotic person mislaid astir ₹10,000 crore successful 2024–25 owed to the non-implementation of the C2+50% pricing formula. “Over the nine-year period, their cumulative income nonaccomplishment is estimated astatine ₹71,000 crore. The existent fig is apt to beryllium overmuch higher, fixed the wide inefficiencies successful procurement and constricted MSP sum arsenic the mandi system had been closed down successful 2006 by the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar,” they alleged.
