India’s pulse policy landscape and its implications for trade

The paper attempts to fill a knowledge gap by examining India’s pulse complex, consisting of production, consumption, and trade policies. India’s pulse policies are anchored in a cereal-centric farming system and prioritize national self-sufficiency as well as the mitigation of relative price increa...

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Autores principales: Roy, Devesh, Boss, Ruchira, Pradhan, Mamata, Ajmani, Manmeet Singh
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140825
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Ajmani, Manmeet Singh
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description The paper attempts to fill a knowledge gap by examining India’s pulse complex, consisting of production, consumption, and trade policies. India’s pulse policies are anchored in a cereal-centric farming system and prioritize national self-sufficiency as well as the mitigation of relative price increases in food. On the farmer side, government policy includes price support (a minimum support price [MSP]) for different pulses initially without procurement, but later backed by public procurement. The MSP plus procurement elicited a comparatively high supply response. Without procurement, the MSP worked only to anchor prices and benefit traders at the farmers’ expense. By not accounting for the needed risk premium (for a supply response) the MSP kept domestic production low. Even as the world’s largest importer of pulses, the scale of pulse imports in India have generally not been large enough to cool its markets and bring down domestic prices. Instantaneous supply adjustments by exporters in response to trade policy changes are difficult.
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spelling CGSpace1408252025-12-02T21:03:03Z India’s pulse policy landscape and its implications for trade Roy, Devesh Boss, Ruchira Pradhan, Mamata Ajmani, Manmeet Singh policies agricultural products grain legumes cereals trade consumers food prices The paper attempts to fill a knowledge gap by examining India’s pulse complex, consisting of production, consumption, and trade policies. India’s pulse policies are anchored in a cereal-centric farming system and prioritize national self-sufficiency as well as the mitigation of relative price increases in food. On the farmer side, government policy includes price support (a minimum support price [MSP]) for different pulses initially without procurement, but later backed by public procurement. The MSP plus procurement elicited a comparatively high supply response. Without procurement, the MSP worked only to anchor prices and benefit traders at the farmers’ expense. By not accounting for the needed risk premium (for a supply response) the MSP kept domestic production low. Even as the world’s largest importer of pulses, the scale of pulse imports in India have generally not been large enough to cool its markets and bring down domestic prices. Instantaneous supply adjustments by exporters in response to trade policy changes are difficult. 2022-04-05 2024-04-12T13:36:42Z 2024-04-12T13:36:42Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/140825 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147391 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133278 https://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/leaving-rcep-a-missed-opportunity-120011601418_1.html https://www.theweek.in/news/biz-tech/2018/05/22/from-look-east-act-east-india-must-think-big-and-act-big.html https://thediplomat.com/2018/01/how-did-sanctions-impact-myanmar/ Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Roy, Devesh; Boss, Ruchira; Pradhan, Mamata; and Ajmani, Manmeet. 2022. India’s pulse policy landscape and its implications for trade. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2113. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.135842.
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trade
consumers
food prices
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Boss, Ruchira
Pradhan, Mamata
Ajmani, Manmeet Singh
India’s pulse policy landscape and its implications for trade
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title_full India’s pulse policy landscape and its implications for trade
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title_full_unstemmed India’s pulse policy landscape and its implications for trade
title_short India’s pulse policy landscape and its implications for trade
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agricultural products
grain legumes
cereals
trade
consumers
food prices
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