several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … rice they turned out to be insignificant. Rice consumption turned out to be strongly influenced by distribution of … subsidised rice, which can be linked to high coverage and subsidy under the public distribution system (PDS). In the case of …

This paper serves to disentangle the complex system of Indian food policies related to wheat and rice procurement …

This paper reports the survey findings that rice value chains are transforming in Bangladesh and India. The main … elements of the transformation are as follows: First, rice value chains in both countries have begun to "geographically … lengthen" and "intermediationally shorten." Second, farmers capture about 60% of the final urban retail price of rice; this can …