- Difficulty in Differentiating Stock: Hard to distinguish genuine stock build-up from speculative hoarding.
- Disincentive for Farmers: If prices are always monitored, farmers may have no incentive to farm.
- Disincentive for Investment: Too-frequent stock limits discourage investment in better storage infrastructure.
- Impact on Food Processing: Stock limits curtail operations of food processing industries that need large stocks.
- Outdated: Enacted when India faced food scarcity, now India is a major exporter.
- Hurts Private Investment: Large scale private investments are unlikely to flow into food processing and cold storage.