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Yadav, Shweta
Pingali, Prabhu
Turvey, Calum
2024-04-05T18:36:38Z
2024-04-05T18:36:38Z
2023-08
ProQuest Submission ID: 11948
ProQuest Publication ID: 30631492
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/114501
https://doi.org/10.7298/9c3x-c650
16219261
45 pages
The objective of India's food policy ensures that agriculture is remunerative, and farm prices are stable through assured minimum support prices (MSP) to farmers while at the same time ensuring subsidized food access for poor consumers through the Public Distribution System (PDS). One of India's major food-based schemes is Public Distribution System costing between 14- 20 billion USD. It is also one of the largest social security programs in the world, that procures and distributes food-related commodities to close to 800 million people. During the Green Revolution, an increased policy focus on staple grains, particularly rice, and wheat, resulted in the crowding out of traditional micronutrient-rich food crops. This study attempts to estimate the consumption-related impacts of extending public procurement to millets. In doing so, the broader objective is to support healthy diet diversification among the poor. As an empirical strategy, it uses the Difference-in-Difference method using data from India’s NSSO Consumer Expenditure Survey, and official data from the Department of Food & Public Distribution, Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare over the years 1994, 1998, 2000, 2004, and 2008. Introducing millets via public procurement is associated with a small increase in average monthly millet consumption. Individual results vary by state and millet type.
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Consumption
Diversification
Micro nutrients
Millets
Public Distribution System
Public Procurement
Role of Public Procurement in Improving the Consumption of Millets
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Applied Economics and Management
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