18 April, 2024The impact of climate change on Indian crops
This article looks at deviations in the impact of short-term weather events and long-term climate change on yields of rice, maize and wheat, and finds that the negative impact of temperature is higher...
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Madhu Khanna Surender Kumar 
13 June, 2023
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Digital agricultural extension: Stimulating or supplanting farmers’ interactions?
Governments and non-profit organisations are increasingly reliant on using digital technologies to deliver information. In the context of agricultural extension in Gujarat, this article looks at wheth...
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A. Nilesh Fernando Renee Yaseen
- 18 August, 2022
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The Effects of Food Policy on Cropping Patterns and Income Distribution in Rural Bihar
Bihar is unusual among the Indian states in the extent to which it remains a rural economy; government food policy can have profound effects on the level and distribution of income in Bihar. The objec...
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Rajnish Kumar Rohini Somanathan
- 15 March, 2017
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How agricultural debt waiver impacts beneficiary households
How a large-scale and unanticipated debt-relief programme impacts beneficiary households is a question that has not been clearly answered by the existing literature. This column analyses the impact of...
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Mrinal Mishra
- 02 February, 2017
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Unified agricultural markets: Where are the reforms lacking?
In April 2016, Modi government launched the e-National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) platform – a pan-India electronic marketplace for trading of agricultural commodities. However, rather than ushering...
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Nidhi Aggarwal Sargam Jain Sudha Narayanan
- 02 January, 2017
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Indian agriculture: How to feed more people with fewer resources
While agriculture in India has achieved grain self-sufficiency, it has become cereal-centric, regionally-biased and resource-intensive. In this article, Swain, Price and Sharma discuss the rising res...
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Gareth Price Ira Sharma Ashwini K. Swain
- 05 July, 2016
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The crisis of farmer suicides
More than 15,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide per year, on average, in the last two decades – a suicide rate that appears to be higher than that of the general population. In this article,...
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Maitreesh Ghatak
- 04 May, 2016
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Moving past the mandis: A revolution waiting to happen
A revolution in agricultural marketing organisation in Gansu province in China led to a 50% increase in potato yields within the past 15 years. In this article, Dilip Mookherjee, Professor of Economi...
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Dilip Mookherjee
- 20 January, 2016
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Transforming Indian agriculture: The role of credit policy
Despite various policy attempts at priority sector lending to poor farmers, very little progress has been made on the ground, suggesting problems in the design and implementation of these policies. I...
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Amartya Lahiri Dilip Mookherjee
- 14 December, 2015
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Using science to improve Indian agriculture
Five years ago, the Indian government imposed a ‘temporary’ moratorium on the commercial release of Bt brinjal – a genetically modified crop - even after it had passed through the due regulator...
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Robert S. Zeigler
- 26 June, 2015
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Promoting the use of a novel water-saving agricultural technology among Indian farmers
The Met Department has forecasted a below-normal monsoon in India this year. This column analyses the demand for a water-saving agricultural technology — laser land levelling — among farmers in U...
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Anil Bhargava Kajal Gulati Travis J. Lybbert Nicholas Magnan David J. Spielman
- 28 April, 2015
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Bovine Economics
About a month ago, the state government of Maharashtra instituted a ban on the slaughter of bulls and bullocks, in addition to the existing ban on the slaughter of cows. In this article, Shanta Gokha...
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Shanta Gokhale
- 08 April, 2015
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Adoption of Balanced Use of Chemical Fertilisers: Farmer's Response to Scientific Evidence and Social Learning
Government of India has launched a massive program of individualized soil tests and customized fertilizer recommendation, with the hope that scientific information will lead farmers to optimize the fe...
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Ram Fishman Avinash Kishore David J. Spielman
- 31 March, 2015
- IGC Research on India
Transforming landholding agricultural workers into farmers
Some believe that MNREGA has negatively impacted agriculture by reducing the supply of labour available for farm work. This column refutes this view and argues that MNREGA has enabled agricultural wo...
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Ravi Kumar
- 07 January, 2015
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Climate change and Indian agriculture
Indian agriculture remains vulnerable to the vagaries of weather, and the looming threat of climate change may expose this vulnerability further. This article presents findings from a study that uses ...
- Siddharth Hari Parth Khare Arvind Subramanian
- 16 August, 2018
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India's farm crisis: Decades old and with deep roots
In this Perspectives piece, Prof. Himanshu argues that the crisis in Indian agriculture today is not a new one; it goes back many years. Therefore, the problems of farmers cannot be addressed by the b...
- Himanshu .
- 12 April, 2019
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How new technologies can raise farm productivity
Lele and Goswami discuss the potential of new technologies in raising farm productivity, and the challenges involved in turning the power of information and other technologies into a farmer-friendly t...
- Sambuddha Goswami Uma Lele
- 06 December, 2017
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