Vijay Paul Sharma Editor & Author

Professor Vijay Paul Sharma is currently Chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India. He was a Professor in the Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) when this study was completed. He has held several important positions including Chairman, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA) during 2005–2008 and 2010–2012 and Chairman, Post Graduate Programme (equivalent to MBA) in Food and Agribusiness Management (PGP-FABM) from 2002 to 2004 and 2013 to 2015 at the IIMA. He was an International Consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), FAO Regional Office for Near East and North Africa, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during October 2015 to January 2016 and Advisor to USAID’s (The United States Agency for International Development’s) Economic Reforms Project in the Central Asian Countries in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 2005. 

He has been a consultant to many national and international organisations in the agrifood and development sector and is a Member/Chairman of several national and state-level committees. His research and consulting interests focus on agricultural and food policies, international trade issues including the World Trade Organization (WTO), agribusiness competitiveness and strategic planning, pricing policy, subsidies, rural infrastructure, and food safety and quality issues. He teaches courses on agricultural and food policy, international trade and commodity trading. 

Harsh Wardhan, presently working as a consultant in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, was a Research/Academic Associate at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has completed his Master’s degree in Economics from the Ambedkar University, Delhi and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Kirori Mal College, Delhi University. A University Grants Commission-Junior Research Fellowship (UGC-JRF) holder, he has a keen sense for both qualitative and quantitative techniques of economics resea