%0 Journal Article
%A Padhee, A K
%A Pingali, P
%D 2020
%F icrisat:11696
%J Nature India
%K Agriculture, Food, Nutrition, Pandemic, Agricultural Policy, COVID-19
%T Lessons from a pandemic to repurpose India's agricultural policy
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/11696/
%X To transform the food systems in India  following the COVID-19 pandemic, the  government will urgently need to repurpose  existing agricultural policies.  India’s policy regimes like the Minimum  Support Price (MSP) and the Public  Distribution Systems (PDS), coupled with  subsidies on irrigation, power, and farm inputs,  are skewed in favour of staple crops like rice  and wheat. Even though some climate-resilient  and nutritious cereals like sorghum and millets  get some support pricing, this seems ineffective  as the policy is biased in favour of the “big two”  staples.