# Economic Survey 2017 slams excessive regulation in India's agriculture sector

> India's Economic Survey 2017 criticized agricultural marketing regulation and stock limits on traders. It said higher winter plantings may not necessarily lead to higher production and noted pulses prices dipped below support prices after record output.

- Date: 2017-01-31 · published 2017-01-31T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region India · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/72968-economic-survey-2017-slams-excessive-regulation-in-india-s-agriculture-sector
- Commodities: [Rough Rice](https://feedsoft.ai/c/RICE.md), [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

Policy calls for deregulation have limited near-term effect on world feed grain prices, though pulse and stock-limit dynamics may shape Indian import needs.

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
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| RICE | 2024-01-19 | [Is India’s Agricultural Export Policy Ambiguous? \| Economic and Political Weekly](https://feedsoft.ai/events/32108-is-india-s-agricultural-export-policy-ambiguous-economic-and-political-weekly.md) | +2.1% | +5.9% |
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| WHEAT | 2024-01-19 | [Is India’s Agricultural Export Policy Ambiguous? \| Economic and Political Weekly](https://feedsoft.ai/events/32108-is-india-s-agricultural-export-policy-ambiguous-economic-and-political-weekly.md) | -0.0% | -6.2% |
| WHEAT | 2017-05-11 | [FY2017 Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations: In Brief](https://feedsoft.ai/events/70997-fy2017-agriculture-and-related-agencies-appropriations-in-brief.md) | -2.4% | +0.8% |
| WHEAT | 2016-12-20 | [FY2017 Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations: In Brief](https://feedsoft.ai/events/73454-fy2017-agriculture-and-related-agencies-appropriations-in-brief.md) | +0.2% | +3.1% |

## Sources

- livemint.com: https://www.livemint.com/Politics/NBR5NRMB6KExDvL6YZPSIN/Economic-Survey-slams-excessive-regulation-in-Indias-agricu.html

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