Consider the following: 1) Areca nut 2) Barley 3) Coffee 4) Finger millet 5) Groundnut 6) Sesamum 7) Turmeric The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affair, has announced the Minimum Support Prick for which of the above?

MSP is announced by the CCEA on the recommendation of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), for the notified basket of crops. Barley, finger millet (ragi), groundnut and sesamum are all in that basket, so option B is correct.

• Option A is wrong because coffee and turmeric have no MSP. Coffee is governed through the Coffee Board, and turmeric trades through market mechanisms.
• Option C fails because it includes areca nut and coffee, neither of which has an MSP announced by the CCEA.
• Option D fails for the same reasons and adds turmeric.

The core concept is the difference between the notified MSP basket of cereals, pulses, oilseeds and commercial crops and other commodity support mechanisms. For Mains, this connects to farm income, crop diversification and the debate on a legal guarantee for MSP. Check the latest CCEA notifications, since the list is revised from time to time.

Trap: assuming every cash crop or spice gets an MSP, which pushes aspirants towards C or D.