MSP & procurement

Coverage balance

How many entries exist for each party's governments and each decade. This shows where the record is thin, so a quiet period reads as a gap in coverage, not as inactivity.

Dossiers

Actions in time order, by government

1. Lal Bahadur Shastri, 9 Jun 1964 to 11 Jan 1966

   INC INC government

   • ImplementedINC14 Jan 1965

     Food Corporation of India and Agricultural Prices Commission (MSP and procurement system)

     In January 1965 the Centre set up the Agricultural Prices Commission to recommend support prices and the Food Corporation of India to procure and distribute grain, the base of today's MSP and public-distribution system.

     Evidence points +9.5 (range +9.0 to +10.0)

2. Narendra Modi, 30 May 2019 to 9 Jun 2024

   BJP NDA government

   • RepealedBJP5 Jun 2020

     Three farm laws (2020) and their repeal (2021)

     Three Acts of 2020 allowed farm-produce sales outside APMC yards, set a contract-farming framework and eased stock limits. The Supreme Court stayed them in January 2021; Parliament repealed them in November 2021.

     Evidence points −11.5 (range −12.0 to −11.0)