Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts
Rice and wheat production in the intensive, irrigated farming systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) is associated with significant negative environmental and health externalities. Conservation Agriculture (CA) has the potential to curb some of these externalities while enhancing farm income. How...
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| author | Krishna, Vijesh V. Keil, Alwin Jain, Meha Weiqi Zhou Jose, Monish Surendran-Padmaja, Subash Barba-Escoto, Luis Singh, Balwinder Jat, Mangi Lal Erenstein, Olaf |
| author_browse | Barba-Escoto, Luis Erenstein, Olaf Jain, Meha Jat, Mangi Lal Jose, Monish Keil, Alwin Krishna, Vijesh V. Singh, Balwinder Surendran-Padmaja, Subash Weiqi Zhou |
| author_facet | Krishna, Vijesh V. Keil, Alwin Jain, Meha Weiqi Zhou Jose, Monish Surendran-Padmaja, Subash Barba-Escoto, Luis Singh, Balwinder Jat, Mangi Lal Erenstein, Olaf |
| author_sort | Krishna, Vijesh V. |
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| description | Rice and wheat production in the intensive, irrigated farming systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) is associated with significant negative environmental and health externalities. Conservation Agriculture (CA) has the potential to curb some of these externalities while enhancing farm income. However, farmer adoption of CA remains modest in the Indian IGP. The present study focuses on the constraints to adopting the major CA component, zero tillage (ZT). We examine whether ZT wheat is feasible for smallholders and the potential of technology targeting to realize faster and wider diffusion. Econometric models and machine learning algorithms were used to analyze remote sensing data and farm household data collected from the Indian states of Punjab and Bihar, two contrasting agrarian economies of the IGP. While farmer adoption was low among smallholders (owning <2 ha of land), the on-farm effects of ZT on variable cost reduction and yield and profit enhancement for smallholders are comparable to large farmers. We estimate the economic potential of technology targeting using an equilibrium displacement model. In the relatively developed state of Punjab, technology targeting based on landholding size does not appear to add substantive economic benefits. In Bihar, a less prosperous state with a dominance of smallholders in the population, technology targeting could markedly enhance economic surplus and reduce rural poverty. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1268262025-12-08T10:29:22Z Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts Krishna, Vijesh V. Keil, Alwin Jain, Meha Weiqi Zhou Jose, Monish Surendran-Padmaja, Subash Barba-Escoto, Luis Singh, Balwinder Jat, Mangi Lal Erenstein, Olaf zero tillage inclusion smallholders economic impact remote sensing Rice and wheat production in the intensive, irrigated farming systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) is associated with significant negative environmental and health externalities. Conservation Agriculture (CA) has the potential to curb some of these externalities while enhancing farm income. However, farmer adoption of CA remains modest in the Indian IGP. The present study focuses on the constraints to adopting the major CA component, zero tillage (ZT). We examine whether ZT wheat is feasible for smallholders and the potential of technology targeting to realize faster and wider diffusion. Econometric models and machine learning algorithms were used to analyze remote sensing data and farm household data collected from the Indian states of Punjab and Bihar, two contrasting agrarian economies of the IGP. While farmer adoption was low among smallholders (owning <2 ha of land), the on-farm effects of ZT on variable cost reduction and yield and profit enhancement for smallholders are comparable to large farmers. We estimate the economic potential of technology targeting using an equilibrium displacement model. In the relatively developed state of Punjab, technology targeting based on landholding size does not appear to add substantive economic benefits. In Bihar, a less prosperous state with a dominance of smallholders in the population, technology targeting could markedly enhance economic surplus and reduce rural poverty. 2022-03-15 2023-01-11T09:02:53Z 2023-01-11T09:02:53Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126826 en Open Access application/pdf Frontiers Media Krishna, V. V., Keil, A., Jain, M., Zhou, W., Jose, M., Surendran-Padmaja, S., Barba-Escoto, L., Balwinder-Singh, Jat, M. L., & Erenstein, O. (2022). Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts. Frontiers in Agronomy, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2022.772732 |
| spellingShingle | zero tillage inclusion smallholders economic impact remote sensing Krishna, Vijesh V. Keil, Alwin Jain, Meha Weiqi Zhou Jose, Monish Surendran-Padmaja, Subash Barba-Escoto, Luis Singh, Balwinder Jat, Mangi Lal Erenstein, Olaf Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts |
| title | Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts |
| title_full | Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts |
| title_fullStr | Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts |
| title_short | Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts |
| title_sort | conservation agriculture benefits indian farmers but technology targeting needed for greater impacts |
| topic | zero tillage inclusion smallholders economic impact remote sensing |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126826 |
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