Using primary household survey data, this paper attempts to study the market structure and price behaviour for major crops in Punjab and Bihar. As expected, Punjab farmers were highly commercial, producing more than four-fifth of their output for the market. Bihar farmers, on the other hand,...

The paper evaluates government price policy in controlling food price variability using monthly indices of wholesale prices of wheat, rice and coarse-grains. Annual price analysis showed that inter-year variability in annual nominal prices declined for both wheat and rice in the nineties as...

This paper examines the incidence of consumption smoothing or risk sharing among the above and below poverty households in India. The results suggest partial risk sharing activities between households either within the same village or within their same ethnic groups. The results of insurance...

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...