CIRDAP to conduct study on food price structure
The Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) has launched a project on 'Food Price Structure Study in Selected Countries in South Asia' with the support from the Kuala Lumpur-based Consumer International Regional Office of the Asia-Pacific (CIROAP).
The study will cover four CIRDAP Member Countries (CMCs) namely Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, according to a CIRDAP press release.
A meeting of the researchers involved in the project was held under the auspices of CIRDAP yesterday. The day-long meeting was inaugurated by Dr Mya Maung, Director General of CIRDAP, at the Centre's headquarters here.
Researchers from all the four participating countries donor representative Alice Escalante de Cruz and CIRDAP staff attended the meeting.
At the opening session, the Director General of CIRDAP highlighted the importance of appropriate food pricing system to protect the interests of producers and consumers.
He hoped the meeting would examine the project design and suggest necessary modifications to work out a suitable methodology for implementing the project.
The opening session was also addressed by Dr Alice Escalante de Cruz, Dr Muhammad Solaiman, Director, CIRDAP, and researchers from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
The project is launched with the aim to increase the understanding of the underlying dynamics and the cross-cutting linkages of the food market in Asia, the press release said.
A major concern of the project is to examine the efficacy and adequacy of the policy and other adopted measures of the countries in response to the growing demand of staple food and, based on the lessons and findings of the study, identify appropriate concerns in future policy-making.
Specifically, it pointed out the study will examine the difference between farm gate price and consumer price for a specific product in the selected countries, identify the marketing structure and its impact on the consumer price, evaluate the economic situation of the farmers, understand the underlying factors that influence net farm income, analyse the economic and social impact of food price policy, examine the adequacy and efficacy of the policy measures adopted by the governments and identify common grounds, and review current policies, both at sector and the macro level.
The researchers' meeting discussed and finalised the methodologies of implementing the project.
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