Changing composition of private investment in Indian agriculture and its relationship with public investment and input subsidies

Using the decennial All-India Debt and Investment Survey from 1981-82 to 2012-13, this paper delves into the spatial and temporal trends in private fixed capital expenditure and its composition, among rural households in India. We also assess its relationship with public investment in agriculture. A...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Anjani, Bathla, Seema, Verma, Smriti
Formato: Artículo preliminar
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143486
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Bathla, Seema
Verma, Smriti
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description Using the decennial All-India Debt and Investment Survey from 1981-82 to 2012-13, this paper delves into the spatial and temporal trends in private fixed capital expenditure and its composition, among rural households in India. We also assess its relationship with public investment in agriculture. Amidst sizeable ups and downs, the magnitude and rate of growth in private investment in agriculture has gained momentum from 2000s except in Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir. An increasing preference of farmers to invest in residential land and buildings, and that at the cost of asset formation in farm business, is evident in agriculturally advanced states. Within agriculture, relatively higher investments in land improvement, machinery-implements, tractors, and livestock are identified over the period. Importantly, such investments are positively influenced by public investments in agriculture and irrigation in the high and low income states and also by public spending on input subsidy in the middle and low income states. An increase in public expenditure that is well targeted and is commensurate with farmers’ investment portfolio would reinforce a complementary relation between the two across-the-board. The impact of terms of trade on private investment though positive turns out to be statistically insignificant. Land acts as a constraint, indicating need for policy interventions that augment crop yield and can bring remunerative prices to farmers. A continued effort to improve the outreach of formal financial institutions for credit is warranted for higher private capital formation.
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spelling CGSpace1434862025-12-02T21:03:24Z Changing composition of private investment in Indian agriculture and its relationship with public investment and input subsidies Kumar, Anjani Bathla, Seema Verma, Smriti capital public finance public investment private farms households private investment agriculture farm management fixed capital agrifood sector public expenditure capital allocation Using the decennial All-India Debt and Investment Survey from 1981-82 to 2012-13, this paper delves into the spatial and temporal trends in private fixed capital expenditure and its composition, among rural households in India. We also assess its relationship with public investment in agriculture. Amidst sizeable ups and downs, the magnitude and rate of growth in private investment in agriculture has gained momentum from 2000s except in Odisha, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir. An increasing preference of farmers to invest in residential land and buildings, and that at the cost of asset formation in farm business, is evident in agriculturally advanced states. Within agriculture, relatively higher investments in land improvement, machinery-implements, tractors, and livestock are identified over the period. Importantly, such investments are positively influenced by public investments in agriculture and irrigation in the high and low income states and also by public spending on input subsidy in the middle and low income states. An increase in public expenditure that is well targeted and is commensurate with farmers’ investment portfolio would reinforce a complementary relation between the two across-the-board. The impact of terms of trade on private investment though positive turns out to be statistically insignificant. Land acts as a constraint, indicating need for policy interventions that augment crop yield and can bring remunerative prices to farmers. A continued effort to improve the outreach of formal financial institutions for credit is warranted for higher private capital formation. 2020-01-01 2024-05-22T12:14:28Z 2024-05-22T12:14:28Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143486 en https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6443-3_12 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133226 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133586 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kumar, Anjani; Bathla, Seema; and Verma, Smriti. 2020. Revisiting the relationship between public and private capital formation in Indian agriculture: A disaggregated analysis. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1905. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133586.
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public finance
public investment
private farms
households
private investment
agriculture
farm management
fixed capital
agrifood sector
public expenditure
capital allocation
Kumar, Anjani
Bathla, Seema
Verma, Smriti
Changing composition of private investment in Indian agriculture and its relationship with public investment and input subsidies
title Changing composition of private investment in Indian agriculture and its relationship with public investment and input subsidies
title_full Changing composition of private investment in Indian agriculture and its relationship with public investment and input subsidies
title_fullStr Changing composition of private investment in Indian agriculture and its relationship with public investment and input subsidies
title_full_unstemmed Changing composition of private investment in Indian agriculture and its relationship with public investment and input subsidies
title_short Changing composition of private investment in Indian agriculture and its relationship with public investment and input subsidies
title_sort changing composition of private investment in indian agriculture and its relationship with public investment and input subsidies
topic capital
public finance
public investment
private farms
households
private investment
agriculture
farm management
fixed capital
agrifood sector
public expenditure
capital allocation
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