the production and trade of rice the most important food crop in India and the world. …Agricultural growth has been largely responsible for India’s desire for long term food security for its rapidly growing … effective competition policy regime in India, has constrained the farm sector gains from trade reforms, and farmer’s capacity to …

This paper studies the integration of rice markets in the mid-west and far-west districts of Nepal. The data were drawn … mainly from the World Food Programme (WFP) database on Nepal. Results indicate that the rice markets of the hinterland are … correlation and convergence between these districts. Given its opendoor policy with India and the ongoing efforts to further align …

aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …

of Philippine rice farming. We empirically estimate a model of farmer behavior and then simulate the consequences of …

food basket. The most significant observation is the falling in per capita consumption of rice with continuous growth of … demand for wheat based products. The objective of this study is to estimate the demand elasticities of rice in Malaysia …, focusing whether rice is an inferior good. By using data from Household Expenditure Survey 2004/2005, this study obtains demand …

rice in Malaysia. The findings provide mixed signals which are different from other rice production countries. Hence …

Vietnam and the productivity effect on plot level and whole farm rice growing . We show that land titles are indeed important …

This paper describes how the social capital of rice farmers of the Mekong delta of Vietnam - manifested in the … tradition of collective farming practice, changed from the 1940s to 1990s. The reason this collective rice farming had existed … agrarian reforms which aimed to improve rural livelihood. Land reform resulted in individual rice farming, making mobilization …