The MSP increase in paddy will have an electoral bearing in paddy growing areas, including UP, Bihar, Odisha, Haryana, etc
Last year, during the 2017 kharif season, 32.7 million farmers paid Rs 30.3 billion towards PMFBY
The Centre has increased the MSP of paddy by Rs 60 per quintal. With this, the MSP for common variety of paddy is fixed at Rs 1,470 per quintal