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Abstract
Market-oriented policy reforms often have important effects on farm-level grain production
and utilisation decisions in developing countries. China’s grain farmers are of
particular interest because of China’s importance in world grain markets and because
of China’s recent major agricultural policy advances and retrenchments. An empirical
evaluation of market liberalisation among farmers located in two provinces in China on
farm-level wheat consumption, market sales and on-farm storage during 1994 is presented.
The results indicate that policymakers should account for such changes in farm
household behaviour in designing and assessing the consequence ofmarket liberalisation
programs for agricultural sectors in developing countries.