The agricultural sector is characterized by higher exposure to a variety of risks compared to the other economic sectors. Agricultural risks include production, market, credit, technological, institutional and human resource risks. Moreover, the agricultural risk environment is changing with...

The thrust of agricultural policy during the sixties and seventies was towards restriction on trade. While this might have been the justified in the years of shortages the present trend towards surplus production of foodgrains necessitates a review of such restrictive policies. Also agricultural...

The present study seeks to address the issues of opening-up of India's wheat imports as well as the relationship between production, government procurement, prices and imports of wheat. We find that wheat production in India has been grown rapidly. The share of wheat in the world's total...

This paper serves to disentangle the complex system of Indian food policies related to wheat and rice procurement, storage, distribution and trade. Using nationally aggregated time series data, these policies are econometrically analysed. Based on the estimation results, their market...

Climate change is a serious concern affecting the wheat production prospects. In the recent past, yield sensitivity to climatic variables has been noticed and it has to be addressed in the perspective of climate smart farming. The present study has tracked the perception of farmers on climate...

Wheat, a major Indian staple food crop is largely prone to rusts infection. Inter alia, wheat producers have been advocated to adopt the recently released innovative technologies (rust resistant high yielding wheat varieties) developed under the All India Coordinated Research Project to counter...

Adoption research for many years has considered individual farmer as the basis of analysis, whereas the effect of networks governing a farmer's decision-making has received limited attention. Moreover, the spread of technology over different generation of adopters has not been addressed...

Rising prices is a growing concern in developing countries especially in the context of food security. The welfare impact of such a price rise has important policy and regulatory implications. In this paper, we have analysed the welfare effect of a price rise of staple food items among Indian...

The study revealed the strong impact of policy measures on production, procurement, stocks and trade. We detected several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum support price (MSP). Wholesale prices at planting or...