there is potential for conflict in achieving both at the same time while investment incentives and other fiscal policies are designed to increase agricultural output the focus of shortterm policies is to influence market prices the incompatible objectives of keeping prices low to benefit consumers while keeping them high to guarantee rural incomes gives rise to inconsistent price stabilisation policies that combine procurement and price interventions with quotas when rice prices are low the central government provides interest rate support to enterprise to buy rice from producers putting upward pressure on prices