Agriculture and Trade : Emerging Issues and Challenges in India

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. I. Competitiveness of Indian agriculture sector: 2. Indian dairy industry: current status, challenges and issues under WTO regime/M. Jayakrishna and A. Rajasekaran. 3. India’s horticulture exports: price and quantity competition/Ushree Sen Gupta and Saikat Sinha Roy. 4. Competitiveness of agricultural and allied products exports of India: a gravity model approach/Falguni Desai. 5. Trade liberalization and export competitiveness of wheat/Priyanka Gupta, Shruti Sharma and Sachin Kumar Sharma. II. Non-tariff barriers and other non-trade concerns: 6. The United States SPS measures on agricultural products imports: impact on BRIICS countries/Murali Kallummal and Hari Mya Gurung. 7. Institutional dimensions of trade facilitation in India; the case of plantation commodities/C. Nalin Kumar. 8. Indian agricultural exports and the challenges of environmental standards compliance/Kavita Mathad. 9. Stat trading enterprises in agricultural commodities in India: trade distortionary or facilitating?/Paramita Bhattacharya and Seema Bathla. 10. Cost of compliance in export of grapes from India/Anirudha More. 11. Food versus biofuel: implications for food security/Aditi Sawant and Sachin Kumar Sharma.

Trade in agriculture plays an important role in socio-economic development of the rural economy. Agriculture sector enjoys an important status in the regional and multilateral negotiations. Negotiations in the WTO on agriculture have attained a significant and central position between the developed and the developing countries. This book deals with different aspects of linkages between trade and agricultural sector in a detailed manner. The book covers a broad range of issues including competitiveness of Indian agriculture, food security, trade facilitation and non tariff measures. The findings of this book would be useful to policy makers as well as the academicians interested in issues related to agriculture and trade. (jacket)