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The CCEA sets an annual Minimum Support Price for copra (dried coconut kernel, the feedstock for coconut oil and oil-cake) each marketing season on the recommendation of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP). The MSP functions as a floor price: if open-market prices fall below it, NAFED and NCCF procure copra directly from farmers at the MSP under the Price Support Scheme (PSS), part of the broader PM-AASHA (Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan) price-assurance architecture. The 2026 season increase (+3.8% milling, +3.3% ball copra) continues a long-run pattern of annual upward revisions — MSP has risen from roughly Rs 5,250 (milling) / Rs 5,500 (ball) per quintal in the 2014 season to Rs 12,027 / Rs 12,500 in 2026, a cumulative increase of about 129% and 127% respectively over twelve seasons. Severity is set at 2 (quant, based on the disclosed percentage increases) because this is a routine, incremental annual adjustment to a long-standing domestic price-support programme rather than a new mechanism or a step-change in scale.
receive a modestly higher guaranteed floor price, supporting continued domestic production and processing capacity.
oleochemical inputs sourced domestically, at the margin favouring imported copra/coconut oil substitutes from lower-cost producers such as Indonesia and the Philippines for price-sensitive downstream buyers, while also incentivising import competition against the subsidized domestic price floor.
staple crops; watch for the CACP's 2027-season recommendation (typically published mid-to-late the preceding year).
inflation for copra (CACP cost data was not independently verified beyond the PIB release).
which determine the real fiscal/market impact beyond the price-floor announcement itself.