TR Shenoy is not in India, he is not writing about Indian situation about which he may not know anything. World prices of rice and wheat are about thre times more than that in India. The prices of wheat and rice in India are determined at the farm level by the government, then it varies from state to state through the middlemen. India normally does not import any food, so the world prices do not matter. Only Sharad Pawar imported food at a very high prices to give these at a very low prices to the BPL groups, so that he and his friends can make a lot of money. Potato farmers in India are in ruin because of very low prices they are getting. The problem is different in India. Rediff.com written from abroad does not have any clue.
