Annual Report 2009-2010 - Department of Agriculture & Co-operation

y Rs.30 per quintal each. The MSPs of masur
and rapeseed / mustard has been retained at the
previous year's level of Rs.1,870 and Rs.1,830
per quintal respectively.
3.11 The Government has fixed a MSP for
copra for the 2009 season at Rs. 4,450 per quintal
for Fair Average Quality (FAQ) variety of milling
copra and Rs. 4,700 per quintal for FAQ variety
of ball copra. The MSP for de-husked coconut
for the 2009 season has been fixed at Rs. 12 per
Kg. For toria, to be marketed in 2009-10, the MSP
has been fixed at Rs. 1,735 per quintal. The
Government has also fixed the MSP for raw jute
for the 2009-10 season at Rs. 1,375 per quintal
for the TD-5 variety ex-Assam. Recent trends in
the MSPs for different crops may be seen in the
statement given in Annexure 3.1.
3.12 Market Intelligence and Price Analysis:
The DES collects Retail Prices of Agricultural
Commodities from 87 designated centers,
which are compiled and disseminated in the
form of a Weekly Bulletin of Retail Prices to
various ministries and departments. Wholesale
prices and market arrivals of agricultural
commodities are also collected on a weekly and
monthly basis from 700 centres spread all over
the country. Out of these price quotations, about
233 quotations on wholesale prices are
disseminated to the Office of the Economic
Adviser, Ministry of Industry and Commerce, for
the construction of the Wholesale Price Index
Table 3.1: Journals published by the DES
on a weekly basis. International prices of
selected agricultural commodities are regularly
collected from the Public Ledger published in
the United Kingdom.
3.13 Agro-Economic Research (AER): Agro-
Economic Research (AER) studies on the national
and regional agro-economic problems of the
country are carried out through selected AER
Centres and Units covering the entire country. 12
Agro-Economic Research Centres and 3 Regional
Units have been established to take up problemoriented
studies on a regional basis with a view
to generating the requisite feedback from the the
grassroots level, while three Units undertake interregional
and all India-level studies.
3.14 Agricultural Wages: Statistics relating to
daily wages paid to different categories of
agricultural and skilled rural labour at selected
centers are collected and compiled by the DES.
20 States are covered for the collection of data
on agricultural wages. These are published in an
Annual Publication, i.e., Agricultural Wages in
India, and a monthly publication, i.e., Agricultural
Situation in India. Wage statistics are supplied
to the CACP and other research organisations.
3.15 Publications: In order to disseminate
information regarding agricultural statistics,
the DES brings out a number of publications.
Some of the important publications are shown
in table 3.1.
Sl. No. Name of the Journal Periodicity
1. Agricultural Situation in India—a research based publication. Monthly
2. Agricultural Prices in India Annually
3. Agricultural Statistics at a Glance Annually
4. Agricultural Wages in India Annually
5. Land Use Statistics at a Glance Annually
6. Cost of Cultivation of Principal Crops Five-Yearly
7. Farm Harvest Prices of Principal Crops in India Annually
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