Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2021
Addressing the Challenges Facing Food Systems
This annual report monitors and evaluates agricultural policies in 54 countries, including the 38 OECD countries, the five non-OECD EU Member States, and 11 emerging economies. The report includes country specific analysis based on up-to-date estimates of support to agriculture that are compiled using a comprehensive system of measurement and classification – the Producer and Consumer Support Estimates (PSE and CSE) and related indicators. This year’s report focuses on policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and analyses the implications of agricultural support policies for the performance of food systems.
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India
Support to producers in India comprises budgetary spending corresponding to 8.6% of gross farm receipts, positive market price support (MPS) of +2.0% of gross farm receipts for supported commodities, and negative MPS of -17% for those that are taxed. Overall, this led to negative net support of -6.4% of gross farm receipts in 2018-20. Support to producers was negative throughout the last two decades but fluctuated markedly. The negative producer support estimate shows that domestic producers on average have been implicitly taxed, as budgetary payments to farmers did not offset the price-depressing effect of complex domestic marketing regulations and trade policy measures. Virtually all gross producer transfers (whether positive or negative) come in forms that are potentially most production- and trade-distorting, a consistent pattern since 2000-02.
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