several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … Food Corporation of India's (FCI's) procurement volume is driven by the production level and the difference between the MSP … wheat, the influence of subsidised wheat is much less pronounced, probably due to weaker functioning of the PDS for this …

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

commercial farms. This study examines the structure and profitability of commercial wheat production using a nationwide survey of … wheat producers for 2009 that includes a targeted sample of organic growers. Treatment-effect models were specified to … isolate the impact of choosing the organic approach on various levels of wheat production costs. Average organic wheat yields …

Five factors are found to have had a significant effect on U.S. acreage of wheat planted during 1961-74: (1) acreage … restrictions, and (5) the market price of wheat for the preceding season. Together, these factors explain over 98 percent of the … wheat acreage variation during 1961-74. The wheat set-aside program reduced wheat planting by 0.28 acre for each acre set …

dryland wheat and sorghum and for alternative dryland crop/livestock systems. A crop simulation model aids yield estimation …

Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), commonly known as scab, has been a severe problem for wheat producers in recent years. This … study estimates the economic value of crop losses suffered by wheat producers in the 1990s. Nine states and three wheat …