Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey
This paper aims at understanding the causes of low adoption of hybrid rice technology. The paper also assesses the impact of adoption of hybrids and modern varieties on crop yield, vis-à-vis the old or traditional varieties.Using unit-level data from a large-scale survey of farm households (19,877 p...
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| author | Negi, Digvijay Singh Kumar, Anjani Birthal, Pratap Singh Tripathi, Gaurav |
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| description | This paper aims at understanding the causes of low adoption of hybrid rice technology. The paper also assesses the impact of adoption of hybrids and modern varieties on crop yield, vis-à-vis the old or traditional varieties.Using unit-level data from a large-scale survey of farm households (19,877 paddy cultivators), the authors applied multi-nomial regression method to understand the factors for adoption of hybrid rice and instrumental variable method of regression to estimate its impact.The findings demonstrate that in India, hybrid rice is often grown on relatively poor soils, resulting in greater irrigation costs and for other inputs, such as fertilizers. Further, farmers' poor access to information on the traits of hybrid rice and the associated agronomic practices, as well as poor access to financial resources, hampers efforts to scale up its adoption. More importantly, the findings reveal that the relative yield advantage of hybrids over open-pollinated modern varieties is not large enough to incentivize the rapid adoption of hybrid rice technology.Given the higher cost of hybrids than the inbred varieties, enhancing paddy cultivators' access to financial resources can accelerate the adoption of hybrid rice in India.The study is based on unit level data from a large-scale, nationally representative survey of farm households, comprising a sample of 19,877 paddy cultivators, spread across states in India. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1380662025-12-19T19:02:07Z Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey Negi, Digvijay Singh Kumar, Anjani Birthal, Pratap Singh Tripathi, Gaurav rice hybrids crop yield farmers inputs access to information capacity building This paper aims at understanding the causes of low adoption of hybrid rice technology. The paper also assesses the impact of adoption of hybrids and modern varieties on crop yield, vis-à-vis the old or traditional varieties.Using unit-level data from a large-scale survey of farm households (19,877 paddy cultivators), the authors applied multi-nomial regression method to understand the factors for adoption of hybrid rice and instrumental variable method of regression to estimate its impact.The findings demonstrate that in India, hybrid rice is often grown on relatively poor soils, resulting in greater irrigation costs and for other inputs, such as fertilizers. Further, farmers' poor access to information on the traits of hybrid rice and the associated agronomic practices, as well as poor access to financial resources, hampers efforts to scale up its adoption. More importantly, the findings reveal that the relative yield advantage of hybrids over open-pollinated modern varieties is not large enough to incentivize the rapid adoption of hybrid rice technology.Given the higher cost of hybrids than the inbred varieties, enhancing paddy cultivators' access to financial resources can accelerate the adoption of hybrid rice in India.The study is based on unit level data from a large-scale, nationally representative survey of farm households, comprising a sample of 19,877 paddy cultivators, spread across states in India. 2025-05-26 2024-01-18T21:47:23Z 2024-01-18T21:47:23Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138066 en Limited Access Emerald Publishing Limited Negi, Digvijay Singh; Kumar, Anjani; Birthal, Pratap Singh; and Tripathi, Gaurav. 2025. Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies 15(4): 695-718. https://doi.org/10.1108/jadee-05-2023-0118 |
| spellingShingle | rice hybrids crop yield farmers inputs access to information capacity building Negi, Digvijay Singh Kumar, Anjani Birthal, Pratap Singh Tripathi, Gaurav Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey |
| title | Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey |
| title_full | Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey |
| title_fullStr | Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey |
| title_short | Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey |
| title_sort | adoption and impact of hybrid rice in india evidence from a large scale field survey |
| topic | rice hybrids crop yield farmers inputs access to information capacity building |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138066 |
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