ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the collective and individual benefits that intervention generates for the MAFF and its officials, and estimates how the interventionist regime in agriculture has influenced the MAFF’s ranking in the inter-bureaucratic hierarchy. The first section describes how the MAFF has benefited from intervention and how this is reflected in its power and status as an administrative entity of government. The second section discusses how MAFF bureaucrats gain individually from intervention. In the last section, the chapter discusses how the interventionist regime in agriculture generates the economic and political goods cementing an ‘iron triangle’ of vested interest in agricultural support and protection.
