The US has challenged the product-specific support to foodgrains by China in the WTO claiming that China has breached its commitments under WTO by providing more than US$100 billion as product specific support to wheat, rice and corn in 2015. The main issue is the price support backed...

Even though India is a predominantly agricultural economy, we find dearth of works related to Indian agricultural trade combining both export and imports. This paper attempts to examine the performances of major Indian agricultural crops both in terms of export and imports and tries to attribute...

India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support prices of wheat and rice were raised substantially. The urea price increases in global markets were absorbed through enhanced fertilizer subsidies. The government launched the...

India has submitted notifications to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on domestic support to agricultural producers in 1995-2003. This paper reviews India's notifications and summarizes the related discussion in the WTO Committee on Agriculture of some key issues relating to the rules of the...

Declining profitability of rice cultivation, changing patterns of food demand in the rapidly growing cities and liberalized Indian economy putting challenges before the planners and policy makers to maintain a steady growth of food grain production to feed the growing population and at the same...

Indian farm sector distress, despite the continuation of price support programme, has not declined but rather increased, as farmers are unable to get remunerative prices for their crop produce due to the inability of the programme to cover all crops and all farmers across the country....