India’s Food Grain Policies and the Public Distribution System: The Case of Rice. Who Wins, Who Loses, and by How Much?

Garry Pursell

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Abstract: Indian governments follow highly interventionist policies on food grains, especially rice and wheat. These policies include import and export controls which insulate the domestic market from world markets, a minimum support price (MSP) program which supports and controls domestic wholesale prices, large farm input subsidies, and consumer subsidy programs which provide rice and wheat through about half a million “fair price shops†to low income (below the poverty line-BPL) consumers at very low controlled prices. this paper simulates the effects of various combinations of the following: abolition of the MSP regime, abolition of the TPDS, and opening of the market to exports by the private sector.

Keywords: Food grain policies; National Food Security Act; Targeted Public Distribution System; Food subsidy; Agricultural trade policies; India, MSP regime, fair price shops, India, prices. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-10
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