India, with the second largest population in the world, potentially represents one of the most important markets for bulk agricultural commodities and agricultural exports. However, in a number of cases, access to this growing market has been constrained by India’s agricultural and trade policies. The overriding policy goal of self-sufficiency in food production based on high domestic production driven largely by domestic subsidies, in the form of price support and large input subsidies, and reinforced by high import tariffs have limited trade opportunities. This policy regime, however, is widely perceived as being neither sustainable nor compatible with the changed circumstances and challenges now facing the Indian agricultural economy ...