several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … Food Corporation of India's (FCI's) procurement volume is driven by the production level and the difference between the MSP … rice they turned out to be insignificant. Rice consumption turned out to be strongly influenced by distribution of …

Study on water productivity issues of rice cultivation in Punjab and sugarcane cultivation in Maharashtra … crops like rice and sugarcane, occupying about one-fourth of the gross cropped area, consume more than 60 per cent of … regions like Punjab and Haryana, which have high land productivity of rice, fall way below in ranking of irrigation water …