several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … wheat, the influence of subsidised wheat is much less pronounced, probably due to weaker functioning of the PDS for this … grain. The public stock analysis suggests higher storage losses for rice (10 per cent) than for wheat (2 per cent). Public …

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