{"id":1738,"date":"2024-03-29T14:09:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T08:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:44:35","slug":"q-the-economic-cost-of-food-grains-to-the-food-corporation-of-india-is-minimum-support-price-and-bonus-if-any-paid-to-the-farmers-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-the-economic-cost-of-food-grains-to-the-food-corporation-of-india-is-minimum-support-price-and-bonus-if-any-paid-to-the-farmers-plus","title":{"rendered":"Q. The economic cost of food grains to the Food Corporation of India is Minimum Support Price and bonus (if any) paid to the farmers plus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>transportation cost only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>interest cost only<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>procurement incidentals and distribution cost<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>procurement incidentals and charges for godowns<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (c) procurement incidentals and distribution cost<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes-hd-66066c5d66908\">Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The economic cost of food grains procured by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) is a total of Minimum Support Price and bonus (if any) paid to the farmers plus the procurement incidentals and distribution cost.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FCI\u2019s economic cost has three main components \u2013&nbsp;<strong>procurement cost, procurement price, and distribution cost.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The procurement incidentals are the initial costs incurred during the procurement of foodgrains.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The distribution costs include freight, handling charges, storage charges, losses during transit and establishment cost.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: (c) procurement incidentals and distribution cost Notes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[38],"years":[54],"class_list":["post-1738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-economy","years-54"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":38,"label":"Indian Economy"}],"years":[{"value":54,"label":"2019"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":38,"name":"Indian Economy","slug":"indian-economy","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":38,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":225,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}