Jha, Shikha; Srinivasan, P. V.; Landes, Maurice R. - 2010
domestic consumption, India developed a large wheat deficit because of reduced price incentives, weak yield growth, and rising …During 1998-2002, India experienced record public surpluses of wheat and rice, sharply higher government grain subsidy … subsidized consumption. The pronounced market cycles and declining per capita consumption for India's major food staples are …