Abbreviations

AAY

Antyodaya Anna Yojana (poorest household category in India)

AMIS

Agricultural Market Information System

aT

Korea Agro-Fisheries and Food Trade Corporation

BAAC

Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives

BULOG

Badan Urusan Logisitk (Bureau of Logistics)

CGE

Computable General Equilibrium

CIP

Central Issue Price

COFCO

China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation

DGF

Director General of Food

ERS

Economic Research Service

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FAPRI

Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute

FCI

Food Corporation of India

FFW

Food For Work

FOBB

Farmers Option to Buy-Back

FPMU

Food Planning Monitoring Unit

GAIN

Global Agriculture Information Network

GKP

Gabah Kering Panen (Prices for wet paddy)

GOJ

Government of Japan

HPP

Harga Pembelian Pemerintah (Government Purchasing Price)

kt

Thousand tonnes

MA

Minimum Access

MAFF

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)

MAFRA

Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Korea)

MAV

Minimum Access Volume

MFN

Most Favoured Nation

MIP

Minimum Issue Price

MMA

Minimum Market Access

MSP

Minimum Support Price

MY

Marketing Year

NFA

National Food Authority

NFSA

National Food Security Act

OMA

Ordinary Minimum Access

OMS

Open Market Sale

OMSS

Open Market Sales Scheme

OWS

Other Welfare Schemes

PDS

Public Distribution System

PFDS

Public Food Distribution System

PRSP

Public Rice Stockholding Programme

PSSE

Public Storage System for Emergencies

PWO

Public Warehouse Organization

RMR

Regular Milled Rice

SAG

State Administration of Grain

SBS

Simultaneous Buy and Sell

SINOGRAIN

China Grain Reserve Corporation

TPDS

Targeted Public Distribution System

TRQ

Tariff Rate Quota

USDA

United States Department of Agriculture

UT

Union Territory

VGD

Vulnerable Group Development

VGF

Vulnerable Group Feeding

WMR

Well Milled Rice

WTO

World Trade Organisation

ISO Currency codes

BDT

Bangladeshi Taka

BHT

Thai Bhat

IDR

Indian Rupee

INR

Indonesian Rupee

KRW

Korean Wong

JPY

Japanese Yen

PHP

Philippines Peso

RMB

Yuan Remimbi (People’s Republic of China)

USD

United States Dollars