Agriculture is the largest source of employment in India, and food accounts for about half of consumer expenditures … efficiency gains in agricultural marketing and reduce agricultural input subsidies and import tariffs. More efficient … agricultural marketing generates economywide gains in output and wages, raises agricultural producer prices, reduces consumer food …

involvement and protectionist measures in the maize marketing sector. Since 1995, the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) and more recently … is now encouraged to perform marketing functions alongside the public sector. However, in practice, the private sector is …