Revised MSPs still about 47% lower for most of the 14 crops under scheme: Report

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According to Crisil, of the 14 crops covered under MSP, only paddy and cotton saw a meaningful procurement during the past three years, with 45 per cent for paddy and 27 per cent of cotton output were procured at MSP but when it comes to groundnuts it was only 4-5 per cent of production and for pulses, it was even less.

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