Discuss the concept of Minimum Support Price (MSP) and evaluate its impact on farmers' cropping choices and groundwater depletion in northwestern India.

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Cropping patterns, irrigation, farm subsidies, MSP, PDS, food processing, supply chain management, land reforms.

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Discovered through overlapping concepts: MSP Distortions, Paddy-Wheat Monoculture, Groundwater Depletion in Punjab/Haryana

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