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Food security, public distribution and stocks
Stocks and food subsidy

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Agriculture and Food Systems

Crop production and sustainable farming
Irrigation systems and farm water management
Land relations and agrarian reform
Farm technology, mechanisation and extension
Agricultural markets, storage and transport
Farm prices, subsidies and risk support
Food security, public distribution and stocks
Food processing and supply chains
Animal rearing, dairying and fisheries

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Stocks and food subsidy

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Centralised foodgrain procurement
Decentralised foodgrain procurement
Public foodgrain stocks
Food subsidy reimbursement
Stock norms vary with the point in the annual cycle
Open-market grain sales are a stock-release instrument

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