Measurement of Eural Food-Grain Consumption

Estimation of rural food-grain consumption is one of the difficult problems in national planning when the rural sector is largely non-monetized; the problem becomes especially important in the current period of aggravated shortage and efforts to ameliorate it. The mthods used by M. J. Desai in "A Comparison of Estimates of Consumer Expenditure on Food-grains by National Sample Survey and Aggregate Supply Date," Artha Vijnana, Vol. 4, No. 4 (1962), are therefore of interest.