Excess Food Stocks, PDS and Procurement Policy

Arvind Virmani and P.V. Rajeev

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Abstract: This planning commission paper tries to examine some of the factors that have led to accumulation of excess food grain stocks and make policy prescription on how to deal with the problem of surplus food grains that are accumulated in the FCI godowns, which is well beyond prescribed buffer stock norms.

Keywords: public distribution system; Food Subsidy; Food Stamps; Food Credit Cards; food consumption pattern; minimum support price; FCI Efficiency and Buffer Stocks. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-08
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