The study revealed the strong impact of policy measures on production, procurement, stocks and trade. We detected … several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … support price (MSP). Wholesale prices at planting or lagged harvest time prices are largely irrelevant for production. The …

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

This paper investigates the international quarterly prices of wheat and rice from 1983(1) to 2012(4). The empirical …, seasonal and irregular components. The empirical results indicate that wheat prices present cyclical behavior while rice prices … except for cyclicality are mainly governed by the irregular component. The results strain the importance of treating wheat …

interdependent than herding cultures and wheat-farming cultures. In China, people from rice-farming areas think more holistically and … show less implicit individualism than people from wheat-farming areas. These differences are mirrored in micro …-level comparisons of neighboring counties differ in rice versus wheat. Research has also found evidence of cultural differences based on …

rice makes cultures more interdependent, while farming wheat makes cultures more independent, and these agricultural … rice-growing southern China is more interdependent and holistic-thinking than the wheat-growing north. To control for … confounds like climate, we tested people from neighboring counties along the rice-wheat border and found differences that were …