Subject(s): Terms of trade in India. -- Agricultural subsidies in India. -- Barter in Government policy in India. -- Conceptual and methodological issues : Trade in international and domestic inter sectoral trade, methodological issues, income term of trade, gross term of trade and index of income for agriculture -- Term of trade and inter-sectoral resources flow - a survey of debate : Changes in terms of trade and its impact on economy, agriculture and industrial development, agricultural price policy,main findings of mitra's study (1977), inter-sectoral resource flows and economic development, agricultural trade liberalisation and terms of trade -- Barter term of trade, its components and crop specific terms of trade - analysis on their inter-relationship : Trend coefficients of barter terms of trade -- Procurement/support prices, barter term of trade and agricultural subsidies : Agricultural price policy, procurement/ support price and market price estimate of regression coefficients, removal of fertiliser subsidies, general equilibrium model, output pricing -- Macro policies, trade liberalisation and gross terms of trade : trade liberalisation, trade policy, impact of trade liberalisation on agricultural exports and terms of trade, strategic integration, determinants of gross term of trade, income velocity of money -- Gross terms of trade, aggregate supply and productivity per hectare : Terms of trade and growth performance, gross terms of trade on aggregate crop output and productivity per hector, variables and expected relationship, estimated equations, positive supply response and capital accumulation -- Role of gross term of trade in private investment in agriculture : Public and private investment, lag-adjustment model of private investment, variables, specification and expected relationships -- Movements of gross terms of trade - an analysis of gain and loss for agriculture sector : Total purchases of agricultural sector form non-agricultural sector, income transfer from changes in gross term of trade, impact of gross terms of trade on rural poverty and real agricultural wages -- Inter state analysis of gross terms of trade and its impact on crop output : Growth performance and changes in gross terms of trade and total factor productivity, determinants of aggregate crop output, regression coefficient, gainer and loser among states