<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Lessons from a pandemic to repurpose India's agricultural policy</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">A K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Padhee</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">P</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Pingali</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>To transform the food systems in India&#13;
following the COVID-19 pandemic, the&#13;
government will urgently need to repurpose&#13;
existing agricultural policies.&#13;
India’s policy regimes like the Minimum&#13;
Support Price (MSP) and the Public&#13;
Distribution Systems (PDS), coupled with&#13;
subsidies on irrigation, power, and farm inputs,&#13;
are skewed in favour of staple crops like rice&#13;
and wheat. Even though some climate-resilient&#13;
and nutritious cereals like sorghum and millets&#13;
get some support pricing, this seems ineffective&#13;
as the policy is biased in favour of the “big two”&#13;
staples.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Agriculture</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Agriculture Policy</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Food and Nutrition</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2020-05</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Article</mods:genre></mods:mods>