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100			_aSahadevan, K.G.
245			_aSagging agricultural commodity exchanges: growth constraints and revival policy options
260			_c2002
300			_ap.3153-160.
362			_a27 Jul
520			_aCommodity derivatives have a crucial role to play in managing price risk especially in agriculture dominated economies. However, as long as prices of many commodities are restrained to a certain extent by government intervention in production, supply and distribution, forward and futures markets for hedging price risk in those commodities have only limited practical relevancee. A review of the nature of institutional and policy level constraints facing this segment calls for more focused and pragmatic approach from the government, the regulator and the exchanges for making the agricultural futures market a vibrant segment for risk management. - Reproduced.
650			_aAgricultural products
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a53149
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