famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the government to foster the country's agriculture development and food … prices across the country. The level of government intervention in grain markets is straining government finances because of …

prices, cash crop prices and prices of manufactured goods) are investigated. …

Security Act (NFSA), 2013, also relies heavily on it to deliver even more grain at highly subsidized prices to 67 percent of …

With increasing farm distress in the wake of falling farm prices in 2017, the State Government of Madhya Pradesh (GoMP … prices (MSPs) and their market prices (averaged for MP and at least two other adjoining states). The scheme was abruptly … if market prices are 10 percent lower than MSP, Rs 1.13 lakh crore when market prices are 20 percent lower than MSP and …

The recent hike in food prices has been of great concern to policymakers, international organisations and donor … increase on maize on Kenyan households. Simulating a 100% increase in maize prices, we find that the headcount ratio in urban … marketing margins and fertiliser prices, would be important factors in promoting a positive impact on performance in the maize …

the level of demand for the commodities by an individual consumer given the structure of relative prices faced, real …

this light, the paper suggests that the policy focus needs to be laid, towards productivity enhancement in agriculture …

conditional moments of commodity prices. The structural parameters of our model are estimated by the simulated method of moments … using actual prices for four agricultural commodities. Simulated data are then employed to assess the effects of our … staggered price approach on the time series properties of commodity prices. Our results lend empirical support to the …