some areas that are critical for lifting the quality of agricultural production and per unit returns received by farmers such as inspection and control and marketing and promotion receive relatively little support the growing share of support that is provided to the agricultural sector as a whole rather than to individual producers is an important reorientation of agricultural support spending to forms that can bring significant benefits to producers and consumers with potentially less production and trade distortions despite the large increase in expenditure on irrigation and to a less extent agricultural knowledge and innovation system the gsse has remained small at in tables and