Market of Supply shortages is used by food grain traders to their advantage by increasing the prices or hoarding the large quantities,. Poor farmers are forced to sell their crop immediately in Buyer's(Here Buyers mean organised food grain traders) market at the price fixed by traders as these farmers don't have holding capacity because of debts and pressing needs. So most part of the increase of food grain prices are not reaching farmers so that they don't have any incentive to produce more.
