Impacts of sweeping agricultural marketing reforms in a poor state of India: Evidence from repeal of the APMC act

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Institute
cg.contributor.crpAgriculture for Nutrition and Health
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierAvinash Kishore: 0000-0003-4625-4922
cg.creator.identifierDevesh Roy: 0000-0003-4795-7240
cg.creator.identifierSunil Saroj: 0000-0001-5820-2092
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - South Asia Region
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI-ICAR
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.identifier.urlhttps://purl.umn.edu/315092
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
dc.contributor.authorKishore, Avinash
dc.contributor.authorKishore, Prabhat
dc.contributor.authorRoy, Devesh
dc.contributor.authorSaroj, Sunil
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:11:33Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:11:33Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143010
dc.titleImpacts of sweeping agricultural marketing reforms in a poor state of India: Evidence from repeal of the APMC acten
dcterms.abstractBihar, among the poorest and least industrialized states in India implemented the most far reaching agricultural market reforms in 2006 by removing law (APMC act) that restricted farmers to selling in government regulated markets. With the unmatched radicalness of this reform, its impacts, and implications for farmers, has not been analyzed. Taking the natural experiment of repeal of APMC, we first assess the impacts on market level outcomes employing synthetic control method and find that repeal of APMC act did not lead to increase in market efficiency, reduction in the wholesale-retail price wedge and wholesale prices of food items. Yet, at the farmer level, by uniquely employing panel data on farm harvest prices (FHP) and farming characteristics, we find evidence of impacts on FHP that varies by crop. The DID estimates show that repeal of APMC actually impacted in terms of lower FHP of paddy with a larger negative effect on marginal farmers. FHP of maize, grown mainly for exports to other states and countries and where new entry of buyers took place, was higher possibly because of increased competition among buyers and use of alternate and more direct channels of procurement from farmers that increased marketing efficiency.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKishore, Avinash; Kishore, Prabhat; Roy, Devesh; and Saroj, Sunil. 2021. Impacts of sweeping agricultural marketing reforms in a poor state of India: Evidence from repeal of the APMC act. Presented at the 31st International Conference of Agricultural Economists, New Delhi, India, August 17-31, 2021. https://purl.umn.edu/315092en
dcterms.issued2021-11-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Association of Agricultural Economists
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/8023
dcterms.subjectmodelsen
dcterms.subjectpoliciesen
dcterms.subjectagricultural policiesen
dcterms.subjectfarm incomeen
dcterms.subjectwholesale pricesen
dcterms.subjectagricultural pricesen
dcterms.subjectmarketsen
dcterms.subjectretail pricesen
dcterms.subjectpricesen
dcterms.subjectlegislationen
dcterms.typeConference Paper

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