MSP for every category of apple, with a ban on sub-MSP purchases

The government took several pro-grower measures: it raised the Market Intervention Scheme support price for apples from Rs 10.50 to Rs 12 per kg in August 2023, introduced the long-demanded universal carton, and cleared MIS dues of about Rs 89 crore. However, the specific promise, a minimum support price for every category of apple legally enforceable against all private buyers with a ban on purchasing below it, explicitly including Adani Agri Fresh, was not delivered. The MIS is a government procurement support price mainly for lower-grade process fruit via HPMC and HIMFED, not a universal binding MSP, and as of 2024 apple growers and the Samyukt Kisan Morcha were still demanding the promised MSP law; private buyers continued to set market-discovered prices. Marked partial: meaningful grower support delivered, but the binding-MSP-and-ban core of the promise remains unfulfilled.