One of Ethiopia’s main challenges is increasing wheat production and productivity by designing and implementing an … appropriate wheat policy. The country has a wheat supply and demand gap, forcing the country to spend a substantial amount of … foreign currency for wheat imports, which are primarily derived from coffee and oilseed exports. The increasing imbalance …

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 …