Agriculture
The Effects of Food Policy on Cropping Patterns and Income Distribution in Rural Bihar
15 March, 2017
- IGC Research on India
Bihar is unusual among the Indian states in the extent to which it remains a rural economy; government food policy can have profound effects on the level and distribution of income in Bihar. The objective of the project is to understand and estimate the combined effects of two state policies related to production and distribution of food: the sharply rising minimum support prices offered to farmers to procure agricultural products, and the subsidized distribution of food grains through public distribution system. It theoretically examined the different impact of these policies on the distribution of income.
Tags:
Related content
Do the poor need genetically modified crops?
Milind Murugkar - 22 November, 2013
- Perspectives
The National Food Security Ordinance: Five misconceptions
- Reetika Khera
- 07 August, 2013
- Perspectives
Food Bill: Neither populist nor unaffordable
- Ashok Kotwal Milind Murugkar Bharat Ramaswami
- 19 June, 2013
- Perspectives
Food for thought: On the design of school subsidy programmes
- Farzana Afridi
- 06 August, 2012
- Articles
Sugar mills: Ownership, productivity and crop choice
- Sendhil Mullainathan Sandip Sukhtankar
- 28 February, 2011
- IGC Research on India
Comments will be held for moderation. Your contact information will not be made public.