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Can Horticulture be a Success Story for India?

Mittal, Surabhi - 2007

India is the second largest producer of the fruits and vegetables in the world after China. Since the 1980s the … international trade in fruits and vegetables has expanded rapidly. The number of commodities as well as the number of varieties … and vegetables for consumption both in fresh and the processed form. Also there is a wide diversification in production …

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To reform and to procure: An analysis of the role of the state and the market in Indian agriculture

Misra, Kartik; Basu, Deepankar - 2022

Since the early 2000s, many Indian states started reforming their agricultural marketing policies and allowed private traders to buy directly from farmers outside the state-regulated market system. The experience of these states during the period 2000 - 2012 can shed light on the impact of...

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Evolution and critique of buffer stocking policy of India

Saini, Shweta; Kozicka, Marta - 2014

India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw buffer stocking of food grains as a famine-combating tool. Today, apart from serving as an effective hedge in times of famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the...

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Modelling Indian wheat and rice sector policies

Kozicka, Marta; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Saini, Shweta; … - 2015

The study revealed the strong impact of policy measures on production, procurement, stocks and trade. We detected several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum support price (MSP). Wholesale prices at planting or...

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Present Bias and Underinvestment in Education? Long-run Effects of Childhood Exposure to Booms in Colombia

Carrillo, Bladimir - 2019

This paper examines the long-run impacts of income shocks by exploiting variation in coffee cultivation patterns within Colombia and world coffee prices during cohorts' school-going years in a differences-in-differences framework. The results indicate that cohorts who faced higher returns to...

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Access to markets and farm efficiency: A study of rice farms in the Bicol Region, Philippines

DeSilva, Sanjaya - 2011

This paper presents an empirical investigation of the relationship between the spread, spatially and temporally, of market institutions and improvements in the productivity and efficiency of farmers. The data used in this study were collected over two decades in a sample of rice farms in the...

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Peeing out of poverty? Human fertilizer and the productivity of farming households

Pettersson, Jan; Wikström, Johan - 2013

In many parts of the world, soils poor in nutrients are farmed with little addition of fertilizer, further depleting the farmland. The very same farmers often face poor sanitary solutions. So-called ecological sanitation aims at providing sanitation and at recycling nutrients as fertilizer. This...

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The impact of extension services on farming households in Western Kenya: A propensity score approach

Deschamps-Laporte, Jean-Philippe - 2013

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the adoption of technological packages in agriculture Kenya on the … Government of Kenya. To this end, we collected data on beneficiaries through a survey of 1000 households in the district of … Lugari, in Western Kenya. We use propensity score matching to compute the average treatment effect on the treated. We find …

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Poverty Impact of Rising Maize Prices in Kenya

Levin, Jörgen - 2010

The recent hike in food prices has been of great concern to policymakers, international organisations and donor agencies. In this paper we discuss, both from a partial and general equilibrium perspective, the impact of the recent price increase on maize on Kenyan households. Simulating a 100%...

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What determines which children work? Empirical evidence from Kenya

Vimefall, Elin - 2011

This paper determines which children work and how much children work in Kenya. The results show that the educational …

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