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Implications of Labour Migration for Rice Production and Household Economy : Evidences from Eastern India
Singh, Krishna M. - 2015
The study evaluates the extent, impact and determinants of labour migration in Bihar. Data were collected in 2011 from four hundred households (200 migrants and 200 non-migrants) four villages, each of rainfed ecosystem (Madhubani district) and partially irrigated ecosystem (East Champaran...
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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …
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Regulatory Environment and Subsidies and It's Impact on Rice Sub-Sector in India
Singh, Krishna M. - 2015
Agricultural growth has been largely responsible for India's desire for long term food security for its rapidly growing … effective competition policy regime in India, has constrained the farm sector gains from trade reforms, and farmer's capacity to … productivity in India. The current paper is an attempt to understand the various regulatory provisions and subsidies which affect …
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Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity : the Bayesian perspective
Djuikom, Marie Albertine - 2018
Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African...
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Measuring rice yield from space : the case of Thai Binh Province, Viet Nam
Guan, Kaiyu; Hien, Ngo The; Li, Zhan; Rao, Lakshman Nagraj - 2018
Despite a growing interest in using satellite data to estimate paddy rice yield in Southeast Asia, significant cloud coverage has led to a scarcity of usable optical data for such analysis. In this paper, we study the feasibility of using two alternative sources of satellite data - (i) surface...
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How are Farmers Adapting to Climate Change in Vietnam? Endogeneity and Sample Selection in a Rice Yield Model
Yu, Bingxin; Zhu, Tingju; Breisinger, Clemens; Nguyen, … - 2013
Vietnam is likely to be among the countries hardest hit by climate change, threatening its legacy as a champion in leveraging agriculture for development. This paper examines how a changing climate may affect rice production and how Vietnamese farmers are likely to adapt to various climatic...
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Fracking, farmers, and rural electrification in India
Fetter, T. Robert; Usmani, Faraz - 2020
The shale gas revolution in the United States induced an unprecedented commodity boom across northwestern India …. Leveraging population-based discontinuities in the contemporaneous roll-out of India's national rural electrification scheme, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289284
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Climate change, rice crops and violence : evidence from Indonesia
Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014
This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...
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Towards sustainable, productive and profitable agriculture : case of rice and sugarcane
Gulati, Ashok; Mohan, Gayathri - 2018
Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the country. Yet, more than half of the gross cropped area is still dependent on rains. Extremely skewed allocation of scarce irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the...
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Fracking, farmers, and rural electrification in India
Fetter, T. Robert; Usmani, Faraz - 2020
The shale gas revolution in the United States induced an unprecedented commodity boom across northwestern India …. Leveraging population-based discontinuities in the contemporaneous roll-out of India's national rural electrification scheme, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290755