International and Internal Market Integration in Indian agriculture: A study of the Indian Rice Market

Sisira Jayasuriya, Jae Kim and Parmod Kumar

No 7935, 106th Seminar, October 25-27, 2007, Montpellier, France from European Association of Agricultural Economists

Abstract: There has been concern about the effectiveness of India's agricultural policy reforms adopted in recent years as part of the overall policy liberalisation process. These concerns have been strengthened by studies of spatial market integration of major agricultural commodity markets, such as the rice market, which have concluded that Indian agricultural markets remain largely segmented and fragmented. These studies, however, have ignored possible structural breaks due to reform policies adopted since the early 1990s and the possible impact of world markets on domestic price movements. We show that the major reforms of the Indian rice market in 1994 has had a major impact on market integration, leading to much faster price convergence between domestic and international prices. The pace of price convergence is influenced by quality of infrastructure in the states and whether they produce market surpluses, possibly because of the asymmetric nature of foreign trade liberalisation in rice.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; International Relations/Trade; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.7935

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