G/AG/W/193  
 
12 February 2019  
(19-0820) Page: 1/8 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
CERTAIN MEASURES OF INDIA PROVIDING MARK ET PRICE SUPPORT TO PULSES, 
INCLUDING CHICKPEAS,  PIGEON PEAS, BLACK MATPE, MUNG BEANS AN D LENTILS  
COMMUNICATION FROM C ANADA AND THE UNITED  STATES OF AMERICA  
PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 18.7 OF THE AGREEMEN T ON AGRICULTURE  
1  INDIA'S PROVISION OF  SUBSTANTIAL MARKET PRICE SUPPORT FOR PU LSES, 
INCLUDING CHICKPEAS,  PIGEON PEAS, BLACK MATPE, MUNG BEANS AN D LENTILS  
1.1.  Using publicly -available sources, Canada and the United States have compiled data and 
information on India's market pric e support (MPS) for the following pulses: chickpeas (gram), pigeon 
peas (arhar/tur), black matpe (urad), mung beans (moong), and lentils.  Further to Article 18.7 of 
the WTO Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), Canada and the United States are providing this 
information to other Members in the interest of promoting transparency surrounding India's 
MPS policies. Findings and calculations are presented in Part I of the present document. Explanation 
of the relevant methodology and findings, as well as preliminary di scussion of their significance, can 
be found in Part II.  This document is for the purpose of discussion by WTO Members. Some aspects 
were necessarily based on partial information.  
1.2.  This document is limited to the specific issue of India's MPS for chickpeas  (gram), pigeon peas 
(arhar/tur), black matpe (urad), mung beans (moong), and lentils during the most recent marketing 
year for which data and information are available – marketing year 2016/171. The document does 
not attempt to identify the full value of India's Current Total Aggregate Measurement of 
Support  (AMS) or even the full amount of product -specific domestic support provided for each pulse. 
The limited scope of this document does not suggest that no additional product -specific support was 
provided for these pulses, that MPS or other types of product -specific domestic support was not 
provided for other commodities, or that India did not provide non -de-minimis  non-product specific 
domestic support during marketing year 2016/17.  
2  FINDINGS  
2.1.  India appears  to be providing significant MPS, both in terms of absolute value and as a 
percentage of the value of production (VoP), for chickpeas (gram), pigeon peas (arhar/tur), black 
matpe (urad), mung beans (moong), and lentils. Table 1 shows apparent MPS as an est imated 
percentage of the VoP for chickpeas (gram), pigeon peas (arhar/tur), black matpe (urad), mung 
beans (moong), and lentils.  
                                                
1 This marketing year was covered by India’s domestic support notification G/AG/N/IND/1 3, submitted 
to the WTO on 19 July 201 8. G/AG/N/IND/13/Corr.1, submitted to the WTO on 30 July 2018, corrects an 
incorrectly titled column in G/AG/N/IND/13.  The marketing year for pigeon peas (arhar/tur), black matpe 
(urad), and mung beans (moong) runs from October through the following September. The marketing year for 
chickpeas (gram) and lentils  runs from April through the following March.  G/AG/W/193  
 
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  Table 1 - Apparent MPS as a percentage of the value of production for various pulses  
Commodity  Apparent MPS as % of VoP  
Chick pea (Gram)  31.7%  
Pigeon Pea (Arhar/Tur)   63.6%  
Mung Bean (Moong)  85.3%  
Black Matpe (Urad)  51.6%  
Lentils (Masur)  41.0%  
Pulses2 47.4%  
 
3  CALCULATION OF ESTIM ATES FOR INDIA'S MPS  FOR PULSES, INCLUDI NG CHICKPEAS, 
PIGEON PEAS, BLACK M ATPE, MUNG BEANS AND  LENTILS  
3.1.  Table 2 shows the calculation of estimates for India's MPS for each pulse, both as a value in 
Indian Rupees and as a percentage of the VoP of these crops in India.3  
3.2.  Regarding the External Reference Price, we note that India notified discrete Exter nal Reference 
Prices for only four of the five pulses discussed in this document (chickpeas (gram), pigeon peas 
(arhar/tur), black matpe (urad), and mung beans (moong)) in its original AGST.  The AGST did not 
list an external reference price for lentils.  Subsequently, in 2017, India used in two notifications an 
average External Reference Price for the five pulses c ombined of USD  345.66/tonne (or 
Rs. 4634.955).4 
3.3.  To achieve greater accuracy, Canada and the United States have derived an External Reference 
Price for lentils by working backward from the simple average used by India for the five pulses in its 
2017 notifications.5 That Canada and the United States have, by necessity, done so should not be 
taken as a Canadian or U.S. endorsement of this approach or o f the accuracy or completeness of 
any aspect of India 's reporting.  
                                                
2 Summation of chickpea (gram),  pigeon pea (arhar/tur), mung bean (moong), black matpe (urad), and 
Lentils (masur).  
3 National -level minimum support prices for pulses  can be found at 
https://eands.dacnet.nic.in/PD F/MSP_July2018(English).pdf  (accessed 29 January 2019) . In these government 
listings, MSPs are listed in Rs . per quintal, resulting in a need to multiply values by 10 to ascertain an MSP in 
Rs. per metric ton ne. For national -level production data  and estim ates, see "Third Advance Estimates of 
Production of Foodgrains for 2017 -18” found at 
http://eands.dacnet.nic.in/Advance_Estimate/3rd_Adv_Estimates2017 -18_Eng.pdf  (accessed 29 January 
2019) . For VoP, see India National Accounts Statistics  2018 at Statement 8.1.2, available at, 
http://www.mospi.gov.in/sites/default/files/reports_and_publication/statistical_publication/National_Accounts/
NAS18/S8.1.2.pdf  (accessed 29 January 2019 ). 
4 See G/AG/N/IND/11 and G/AG/N/IND/13. The marketing years covered by the notifications in which 
India used this External Reference Price are 2012/13, 2013/14, and 2016/17.  
5 India stated that that the aggregate External Reference Price for pulses indicated in G/AG/N/IND/11 
"{i}s calculated based on simple average of External Reference Price of variou s pulses given in AGST and used 
to calculate product specific support for pulses (including lentils). " See "AG-IMS ID 87130: Question by Canada 
- Constitu ent data and methodology (AGST) ".  
For India's initial External Reference Price data, see India Notifi cation, G/AG/AGST/I ND (undated) at 
18 and 23 - 25. With respect to G/AG/N/IND/11 and G/AG/N/IND/13, the simple average of the external 
reference prices for arhar/tur, moong,  urad, gram, and lentils is USD  345.66 per tonne (or Rs. 4,634.955 per 
tonne using the exchange rate notified by India). Canada and the United States calculated India's external 
reference price for lentils to b e Rs. 4,636.80 per tonne (or USD  345.80 using the exchange rate notified by 
India) using External Reference Prices provided for a rhar/tur, moong, urad, and gram in G/AG/AGST/IND 
(totalling Rs. 18,538) to impute the External Reference Price for lentils into the simple average for the five 
pulses notified by India in G/AG/N/IND/11 and G/AG/N/IND/13. Canada and t he United States calcul ate: 
Rs. 4,634.955*5 – Rs. 18,538 = Rs. 4,636.775.  G/AG/W/193  
 
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  Table 2 - MPS for Pulses  
 Description  of Basic  
Products  Applied  
Administered 
Price  External  
Reference 
Price  Eligible 
Production  Total  Market  
Price  Support  VoP MPS/  
VOP 
  
 (Rs./MT)  (Rs./MT) (Million  MT) (Million  Rs.) 
(AAP-ERP)*EP  (Million  Rs.)  
1 Chickpea (Gram)  35,000.00  4,128.00  7.06 217,956  686,510  31.7%  
2 Pigeon Pea (Arhar/Tur)  50,500.00  5,243.00  4.87 220,402  346,790  63.6%  
3 Mung Bean (Moong)  52,250.00  4,782.00  2.17 103,006  120,790  85.3%  
4 Black Matpe (Urad)  50,000.00  4,385.00  2.83 129,090  250,120  51.6%  
5 Lentils (Masur)  34,000.00  4,636.80  0.98 28,776  70,250  41.0%  
 
4  EXPLANATION OF APPAR ENT FINDINGS  
4.1  INDIAN PULSE SITUATION AND DOMESTIC SUPPORT  
4.1.  According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), India is the world's second -largest 
agricultural producer.6 Also a major agricultural exporter, India's agric ultural exports were valued at 
USD 34 billion in 2016, making India the world's ninth -largest agricultural exporter.7 India is a 
particularly significant player in the international market for pulses. According to the FAO, India is 
the largest producer, consumer, and importer of pulses.8 Since 2012, India has accounted for over 
one quarter of worldwide imports of pulses annually.9 India also ranked as the world 's fifth to tenth 
largest exporter of pulses from 2012 through 2017.10 
4.2.  In addition to being a major agricultural producer, India is also a major provider of agricultural 
domestic support. While India provides domestic support to its producers in a variety of ways, input 
subsidies and minimum support prices (MSPs) appear to be the primary support mechanisms notified 
by India.  
4.2  RELATIONSHIP OF MPS TO CURRENT TOTAL AMS  
4.3.  Article 7, paragraph 2 of the AoA states that "[w]here no Tota l AMS commitment exists in 
Part IV of a Member's Schedule, the Member shall not provide support to agricultural producers in 
excess of the relevant de minimis  level set out in paragraph 4 of Article 6". India has no Total AMS 
commitment in Part IV of its S chedule (XII).  
4.4.  Annex 3 of the AoA identifies support that "shall" be included in a Member's AMS calculation. 
It states that "an Aggregate Measurement of Support (AMS) shall be calculated on a product specific 
basis for each basic agricultural product recei ving market price support, non-exempt  direct 
payments, or any other subsidy not exempted from the reduction commitment ("other non -exempt 
policies")"11. Thus, the AoA states that "market price support" in favor of basic agricultural products 
is a form of no n-exempt domestic support and must be included in a Member's AMS calculation.  
4.5.  Article 6, paragraph 4 of the AoA provides an exemption from in clusion in Total AMS of 
product -specific domestic support of less than 5% of the total value of production of a bas ic 
agricultural product during a relevant year, or 10% for a developing country. Accordingly, if India 
provides product -specific domestic support, including MPS, for a specific basic agricultural product 
in excess of 10% of the value of production for that  crop during a given year, India will be in breach 
of its AMS commitments under the AoA.  
                                                
6 "Production -Value of Agricultural Production, " FAOSTAT, available at, http://www.fao.org/  (accessed 
29 January 2019 ). Values reported in current USD.  
7 See WTO World  Trade Statistics  2017 at page 31, available at,  
https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/wts2017_e/wts2017_e.pdf  (accessed 29 January 2019 ). 
8 FAOSTAT, available at http://www.fao.org/  (accessed 29 January 2019 ). "India at a Glance, " 
FAO, available at http://www.fao.org/india/fao -in-india/india -at-a-glance/en/  (accessed 29 January 2019 ). 
9 Indian and global import  data obtained from Trade Data Monitor  using Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule  (HTS) code  0713 ( accessed 29 January 2019 ). 
10 Indian and global export  data obtained from Trade Data Monitor  using Harmonized Tarif f 
Schedule  (HTS) code  0713 ( accessed 29 January 2019 ). 
11 See AoA, Annex 3, paragraph 1 (emphasis added).  G/AG/W/193  
 
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  4.3  PRINCIPLES FOR CALCULATING MPS  
4.6.  Annex 3, paragraph 1 of the AoA provides that AMS "shall be calculated on a product -specific 
basis for each basic agricultural product r eceiving market price support, non -exempt direct 
payments, or any other subsidy not exempted from the reduction commitments".12 Annex 3 further 
provides a specific calculation methodology for determining the value of "market price support."  
4.7.  Pursuant to Anne x 3, paragraph 8 of the AoA:  
[M]arket price support shall be calculated using the gap between a fixed external 
reference price and the applied administered price multiplied by the quantity of 
production eligible to receive the applied administered price.  
4.8.  Thus, "market price support" requires a comparison between t he "applied administered 
price"  (AAP) and the "fixed external reference price". An AAP would be a price that is dispensed or 
provided by a governmental scheme.13 The "fixed external reference price " is defined in Annex  3, 
paragraph  9, which states that this price "shall be based on the years 1986 to 198 8".14 The difference 
between the  AAP and fixed external reference price is then multiplied by the "quantity of production 
eligible to receive  the appl ied administered price ".15 
4.9.  The calculation methodology provided in Annex 3, paragraph 8, for market price support is 
reflected in the following equation:  
(Applied Administered Price – Fixed External Reference Price) * Quantity of Production 
Eligible  = Value of Market Price Support  
The Appellate Body in Korea – Beef reached the same understanding of the meaning of "market 
price suppo rt" under Annex 3, paragraph 8.16 
4.10.   The MPS calculation methodology contained in Annex 3, paragraph 8, of the AoA directs that  
the established price gap be multiplied "by the quantity of production eligible to receive  the applied 
administered price ".17 The ordinary meaning of the terms indicates that "eligible production" is all of 
the production entitled or permitted to receive t he administered price. It is the amount of agricultural 
production that has the rightful claim to receive the AAP, whether or not that amount of production 
actually received the specified AAP.18  
4.11.   The Appellate Body in Korea – Beef considered the meaning of the phrase "quantity of 
production eligible to receive the applied administered price" and reached a similar understanding.19 
The Appellate Body stated that "production eligible to receive the applied administered price" has "a 
different meaning in ordinary  usage from 'production actually purchased.'"20 The Appellate Body 
further defined "eligible" as that which is "fit or entitled to be chosen."21 It noted that "[p]roduction 
actually purchased may often be less than eligible production."22 Thus, "eligible prod uction" within 
the meaning of Annex 3, paragraph 8 of the AoA is production, which is fit or entitled to receive the 
applied administered price, whether or not the pro duction was actually purchased.23 
                                                
12 See AoA, Annex 3, paragraph 1.  
13 Of relevance, "administer" is defined as to "execute or dispense" , or to "furnish, supply, give 
(orig.  something ben eficial to) ". Shorter  Oxford  English  Dictionary , "administer " p. 28 (ed. 1993).  
14 See AoA, Annex 3, paragraph 9. See also AoA, Annex 3, paragraph 7 (stating that the "AMS shall be 
calculated as close as practicable to the point of first sale of the basic agricultural product concerned").  
15 AoA, Annex 3, paragraph 8.  
16 See e.g., Appellate Body Report, Korea – Measures Affecting Imports of Fresh, Chilled, and Frozen 
Beef, WT/DS161/AB/R, WT/DS169/AB/R , adopted 10 January 2001 ( Korea – Beef (AB)), para. 116.  
17 See AoA, Annex 3, paragraph 8.  
18 See also Shorter Oxford English Dictionary , "entitled ", p. 830 (ed. 1993) ("Now (chiefly of 
circumstances, qualities, etc.) confer on (a person or thing) a rightful claim to something or a right to do." 
(emphasis original) ); Shorter Oxford English Dictionary , "fit" , p. 960 (ed. 1993) ("Be suited to or appropriate 
for;" "Meet the requirements of").  
19 See Korea – Beef (AB), para. 120.  
20 See Korea – Beef (AB), para. 120 (emphasis in original).  
21 See Korea – Beef (AB), para. 120. 
22 See Korea – Beef (AB), para. 120.  
23 See Korea – Beef (AB), para. 120; see also Panel Report, Korea – Measures Affecting Imports of 
Fresh, Chilled, and Frozen Beef, WT/DS161/R, WT/DS169/R, adopted 10 January 2001, as modified by G/AG/W/193  
 
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  4.4  India's MPS Regime for Pulses, including Chickpeas, Pige on Peas, Black Matpe, Mung 
Beans, and Lentils  
4.12.   India's Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) devises "price policy and relative 
price structure" for approximately two dozen agricultural commodities.24 The Agricultural Prices 
Commission (APC), t he predecessor to the CACP, was originally established in 1965 by the Ministry 
of Food and Agriculture (MOA) to "advise on the price policy of agricultural commodities…with a view 
to evolving a balanced and integrated price structure… ".25 The mandate of CAC P and the products 
for which it sets MSP levels are determined through a "terms of reference" document established 
through ministerial resolution.26 The resolution governing the current operation of the CAPC states:  
…Terms of Reference of the Commission wo uld be as under:  
To advise on the price policy of paddy/rice, wheat, jowar, bajra, maize, ragi, barely 
{sic}, gram, turn, moong, urad, sugarcane, groundnut, soyabean, sunflower seed, 
rapeseed, mustard, cotton, jute, tobacco, sesamum, nigerseed, lentil (mas ur), 
safflower, copra and such other commodities as the Government may decide from time 
to time, with a view to evolving a balanced and integrated price structure in the 
perspective of the overall needs of the economy and with due regard to the interests o f 
the producer and the consumer.27  
4.13.   CACP submits price policy reports to India's Cabine t Committee on Economic Affairs  (CCEA), 
which then announces final decisions on the levels of MSPs in periodic press releases.28 These CCEA 
press releases are issued three  times a year by crop type: Kharif (June), Rabi and Toria crops 
(October/November). The Food Corporation of India (FCI), and the National Agricultural Cooperative 
Federation of India (NAFED), as well as analogous state agencies, play a role in procuring va rious 
agricultural products.29  
4.14.   India does not cap the quantity of chickpeas, pigeon peas, black matpe, mung beans, or lentils 
that the government may procure.30 Accordingly, under the terms of the AoA , all Indian production 
of each pulse constitutes eligible production for purposes of ascertaining the level of India's MPS for 
each pulse.  
                                                
Appellate Body Report  WT/DS161/AB/R, WT/DS169/AB./R, ( Korea – Beef (Panel)), para. 827 (noting that 
"eligible production for the purposes of calculating the market price support component of current support 
should comprise the total marketable production of all producers which  is eligible to benefit from the market 
price support, even though the proportion of production which is actually purchased by a governmental agency 
may be relatively small or even nil").  
24 See "Organisation ", Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, available at, 
http://cacp.dacnet.nic.in/content.aspx?pid=32  (accessed 29 January 2019 ) and "The Terms of Reference of 
the Commission vide Ministry of Agriculture (Department of Agriculture and C ooperation) 's Resolution 
No. 49011/6/2009 -EA", available at, The Terms of Reference of the Commission vide Ministry of Agriculture 
(Department of Agriculture and Cooperation) 's Resolution No. 49011/6/2009 -EA dated 30.7.2009 , 
https://cacp.dacnet.nic.in/ViewContents.aspx?Input=1&PageId=33&KeyId=0 , (accessed 29 January 2019 ). 
CACP s tates that it sets prices for 23  agricultural commodities on its web site. However, the manner  in which 
products are counted can affect the total count of products subject to the MPS regime.  
25 See Department of Food and Agriculture, Ministry of Food and Agriculture Resolution No.  6-2/65, 
8 January 1965, available at, 
http://cacp.dacnet.nic.in/ViewQuestionare.aspx?Input=2&DocId=1&PageId=34&KeyId=247  (accessed 
29 January 2019 ). 
26 See Department of Agriculture and Cooperati on, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, Resolution F 
No. A 49011/6/2009 -EA, 30 July 2009, available at, 
https://eands.dacnet.nic.in/Archive/Gazette%20of%20Indi a%20 --%20English.pdf  (accessed 
29 January  2019). 
27 See "Resolution", Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation F No. A 
49011/6/2009 -EA, 30 July 2009, p. 1, available at, 
https://eands.dacnet.nic.in/Archive/Gazette%20of%20India%20 --%20English.pdf  (accessed 
29 January  2019).  
28 See "Organi sation" , Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, available at, 
http://cacp.dacnet.nic.in/content.aspx?pid=32  (accessed 29 January 2019 ). 
29 Ibid. 
30 Indian government pulse purchases occur through at least two purchasing schemes: the Price 
Support Scheme (PSS) and Price Stabilization Fund (PSF) scheme. Under the latter, purchases occur at the 
higher of the minimum support price or the prevailing market price. The latter program accounted for the 
overwhelming majority of purchases in MY 2016/17.  G/AG/W/193  
 
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  4.5  Differences with India's calculations  
4.15.   India's notification appears to dramatically under -report the val ue of India' s MPS for 
chickpeas  (gram), pigeon peas (arhar/tur), black matpe (urad), mung beans (moong), and lentils. 
Specifically, India's notification showed an aggregated value of support converted from U.S. dollars 
of Rs. 26,673 million for all pulses for MY 2016/17.31 By comparison, Canada and the United States 
estimate that MPS for the five pulses for MY 2016/17 was Rs. 699,230  million, which consists of 
MPS values of Rs. 217,956 million for chickpeas (gram), Rs. 220, 402 million for pigeon peas 
(arhar/tur), Rs. 103,006 million for mung beans (moong), Rs. 129,090 million for black matpe 
(urad), and Rs. 28,776 million for lentils.  
4.5.1   Currency  
4.16.   India's AGST document provides India's domestic support commitments in Indian Rupees. 
However, all of India's DS:1 notific ations have been denominated in U.S. dollars.  To be consistent 
with India's scheduled commitments, Canada and the United States have calculated India's MPS 
using information published by the Government of India in Indian Rupees.  
4.5.2   Eligible Production  
4.17.   India' s domestic support notification G/AG/N/IND/13 appears to reflect only volumes actually 
purchased. India's AGST document and first DS:1 notification, for MY 1995/96, relied on total 
production as India's eligible production.32 
4.18.   While India has acknowledged th is change in methodology, it has not provided a specific 
explanation for this change, as seen in India's response in the CoA to AG -IMS ID 63058. In other 
responses to questions in the CoA, such as AG -IMS ID 63058 and AG -IMS ID 67028, India has stated 
that the reason for its use of the procured quantity as eligible production is that the only farmers to 
benefit from the MSP are those whose product is procured by a government agency.  
4.19.   India's reporting of only procured quantities is directly contrary to the MP S calculation 
methodology provided in AoA Annex 3, paragraph 8, which provides for the calculation to be based 
on all production eligible for the applied administered price, whether or not actually procured by a 
Member's government at that price. According ly, Canada and the United States have estimated MPS 
here based on all eligible production, as opposed to just that portion of production actually procured 
by government entities in India.  
4.5.3   Aggregation of Commodities/Applied Administered Prices  
4.20.   In their cal culations, Canada and the United States used the MSPs maintained by India for 
each pulse, not the aggregate all -pulse MSP used in India 's recent domestic support notifications, to 
calculate a single all -pulse MPS figure.33 India used prices specific to each  pulse (not including lentils)  
in its AGST document, and Canada and the United States were unable to identify any change in 
India's MPS programme subsequent to the AGST document that could justify a switch to use of an 
aggregated MSP, or provision of just an aggregated MPS figure.  India announces distinct MSPs for 
chickpeas (gram), pigeon peas (arhar/tur), black matpe (urad), mung beans (moong), and lentils.34 
By comparison, the applied administered price notified by India in its notifications for pulses doe s 
not represent the actual price received by any pulse, whether it be chickpeas (gram), pigeon peas 
(arhar/tur), black matpe (urad), mung beans (moong), or lentils.  
                                                
31 India notified MY 2 016/17 values of USD 397.67 million for pulses . Canada and the  United States 
convert India 's notified MPS values for MY 201 6/17 in million USD to million Rs. using India 's notified exchange 
rate for 201 6-17 of 67.072  Rs. to 1 USD.  
32 See India Notification,  G/AG/N/IND/1 (1998).  
33 G/AG/N/IND/13 notifies  a single MPS value for pulses derived using a single applied administered 
price for all pulses.  India reports single MPS and applied administered price values even though India maintains 
different support pric es for various pulses, and even though India 's AGST document indicated separate MSPs 
for each pulse (except lentils) and contained separate market price support calculations for each pulse (except 
lentils) based on those MSPs.  
34 See various Kharif and Rabi  Price Policy Reports published by the Indian Commission for Agricultural 
Costs and Prices, available at, https://cacp.dacnet.nic.in/  (accessed 29 January 2019 ). G/AG/W/193  
 
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  4.21.   WTO Members in the CoA have inquired as to why India notifies a single applied administered  
price for pulses, and a single market price support figure for all pulses, even though India maintains 
different MSPs for each type of pulse.  India responded that "tur, urad, moong, gram, and lentils are 
different varieties of pulses and therefore, it is reasonable to calculate product specific support for 
aggregated pulses ".35 India proceeded to explain in response to AG -IMS ID 87114 that the applied 
administered price is a simple average of the various MSPs announced and the fixed External 
Reference Price  is a simple average of the individual External Reference Prices listed in India 's 
AGST  document.  
4.5.4   Value of Production  
4.22.    India has not notified total VoP for any commodity in its do mestic support notification 
for MY2016/17. The VoP data used in the calculat ions and tables in this document is sourced from 
India's National Accounts Statistics.36 
Table 3 - India's Notified MPS Relative to Canada and the United States' Calculations of 
India' s MPS37 
Pulses38 
India’s Notified MPS by Value   
(U.S. dollars, millions and Indian Rupees, millions ) US 397.67  Rs. 26,673  
India’s Notified MPS as % of VoP39 1.81%  
Chickpea (Gram)  
Canada/U.S. Calculated MPS by Value (Indian Rupees, millions)  Rs. 217,956  
Canada/U.S. Calculated MPS as % of VoP  31.7%  
Pigeon Pea (Tur)  
Canada/U.S. Calculated MPS by Value (Indian Rupees, millions)  Rs. 220,402  
Canada/U.S. Calculated MPS as % of VoP  63.6%  
Mung Bean (Moong)  
Canada/U.S. Calculated MPS by Value (Indian Rupees, millions)  Rs. 103,006  
Canada/U.S. Calculated MPS as % of VoP  85.3%  
Black Matpe (Urad)  
Canada/U.S. Calculated MPS by Value (Indian Rupees, millions)  Rs. 129,090  
Canada/U.S. Calculated MPS as % of VoP  51.6%  
Lentils (Masur)  
Canada/U.S. Calculated MPS by Value (Indian Rupees, millions)  Rs. 28,776  
Canada/U.S. Calculated MPS as % of VoP  41.0%  
 
                                                
35 See G/AG/W/181, page 66.  
36 For MY 2011/12 -2016/ 17, see India National Accounts Statistics  2018 at Statement 8.1.2, available 
at, http://www.mospi.gov.in/sites/de fault/files/reports_and_publication/statistical_publication/National_Accoun
ts/NAS18/S8.1.2.pdf  (accessed 29 January 2019 ). 
37 Monetary values indicated in million Rs. India's notified MPS values are obtained from 
G/AG /N/IND/13. Canada and the United States convert their calculations of India's notified MPS values using 
India's notified exchange rates for MY 2016 -17 (67.072 Rs. to 1 USD).  
38 Summation of chickpea (gram), pigeon pea (tur), mung bean (moong), black matpe (urad), and 
lentils (masur).  
39 India does  not notify VoP, therefore VoP from India's National Accounts Statistics was used for each 
pulse.  See India National Accounts Statistics 2018 at  Statement 8.1.2, available 
at, http://www.mospi.gov.in/sites/default/files/reports_and_publication/statistical_publication/National_Accoun
ts/NAS18/S8.1.2.pdf  (accessed 29 January 2019).  G/AG/W/193  
 
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  5  CONCLUSION  
5.1.  It appears that India provides market price support for pulses vastly in excess of what it has 
reported to the WTO.  
5.2.  Canada and the United States look forward to future discussion of the significance of India 's 
MPS for pulses for both India 's market and for world markets – both with India and with other 
Members.  
 
 
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