Interstate trade of cereals in India

Harris, F. 2020. Interstate trade of cereals in India. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001870.

Harris, F. Interstate trade of cereals in India [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2020. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001870.

Harris, F (2020). Interstate trade of cereals in India. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001870.

Description

Data on the interstate trade of cereals in India (2011-12), modelled using a food supply and demand balance model to estimate volumes of trade and a linear programming model that minimizes the cost of transportation to estimate the direction of trade flows. Trade matrices and model input data available (distance between states, and supply and demand estimates). Data is available for seven cereals; rice, wheat, maize, sorghum (jowar), bajra, ragi and small millets. We include the trade of rice and wheat through the Public Distribution System (PDS), and non-PDS cereal trade.

Methods

Description of data capture

Data on the interstate trade flows between Indian states for the year 2011-12 (35 states). Data can be found in excel files (see info tab for details). Trade flows have been modelled using a minimised cost model. For full details on methods of analysis see: Harris et al., 2020. Trading water: virtual water flows through interstate cereal trade in India. Environmental Research Letters.

Data capture method

Simulation

Data Collection Period

From	To
2011	2012

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

25 September 2020

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Harris, F
Associated roles	Green, R (Supervisor) and Joy, E (Supervisor)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Population Health (2012- )
Research Centre	Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health
Research Group	Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health
Participating Institutions	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingom