Agricultural Outlook and Situation Analysis Reports
Laxmi Joshi
Charu Jain
Shesadri Banerjee
Rajesh Chadha
Sameer Kumar Mondal
Ayyapasore Govindan
V. P. Ahuja
September 2015
The need for monitoring and analysis of emerging food scenarios is important for India both because of significant dependence of output on the monsoon rains and the fact that globally India is one of the major consumers of food crops influencing markets. Management of agriculture from a public policy perspective requires organisation of this information and analysis as inputs to policy making.