It aims to enhance public-private co-operation to better co-ordinate rice policy and to report on export prices and volumes. At township and village tract level,4 the SACs operate through contract farming arrangements by distributing inputs and providing credit to rice growers while buying their harvest. Gold Delta was the last of the 58 MRSCs that was lending to farmers and had to stop lending as it was not profitable. Maize harvested area has almost tripled and its production increased seven fold (CSO, 2012). Green gram, black gram and pigeon pea are the most important crops in this group. Following liberalisation in 1988, the sown area of pulses substantially increased from 0.73 million ha in 1988 to 4.5 million ha in 2010-11, with an average yield of 1.28 MT per ha due to the adoption of improved varieties (MOAI, 2012b).