Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey
India’s rice production has come under pressure from a number of biotic and abiotic stresses, resulting in a significant deceleration in its productivity growth in recent years. Hybrid rice technology is considered a sustainable option for boosting productivity growth. The adoption rate of hybrid ri...
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| author | Negi, Digvijay S. Kumar, Anjani Tripathi, Gaurav Birthal, Pratap Singh |
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| description | India’s rice production has come under pressure from a number of biotic and abiotic stresses, resulting in a significant deceleration in its productivity growth in recent years. Hybrid rice technology is considered a sustainable option for boosting productivity growth. The adoption rate of hybrid rice technology, however, has remained sluggish. This paper, using data from a large-scale, nationally representative survey of farm households, identifies causes of low adoption of hybrid rice technology and subsequently assesses the impact of low adoption on crop yield. Our findings demonstrate that in India, hybrid rice is often grown on relatively poor soils, resulting in greater costs for irrigation as well as for other inputs, such as fertilizers, essential for growth. Although hybrid rice technology appears to be scale neutral, farmers’ poor access to information on its biochemical traits and agronomic practices, as well as poor access to financial resources, hampers scaling up its adoption. More important, our findings reveal that the relative yield advantage of hybrids over open-pollinated modern varieties is not large enough to incentivize rapid adoption of hybrid rice technology. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1434902025-12-02T21:02:52Z Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey Negi, Digvijay S. Kumar, Anjani Tripathi, Gaurav Birthal, Pratap Singh impact hybrids hybridization rice capacity development crop yield crop production India’s rice production has come under pressure from a number of biotic and abiotic stresses, resulting in a significant deceleration in its productivity growth in recent years. Hybrid rice technology is considered a sustainable option for boosting productivity growth. The adoption rate of hybrid rice technology, however, has remained sluggish. This paper, using data from a large-scale, nationally representative survey of farm households, identifies causes of low adoption of hybrid rice technology and subsequently assesses the impact of low adoption on crop yield. Our findings demonstrate that in India, hybrid rice is often grown on relatively poor soils, resulting in greater costs for irrigation as well as for other inputs, such as fertilizers, essential for growth. Although hybrid rice technology appears to be scale neutral, farmers’ poor access to information on its biochemical traits and agronomic practices, as well as poor access to financial resources, hampers scaling up its adoption. More important, our findings reveal that the relative yield advantage of hybrids over open-pollinated modern varieties is not large enough to incentivize rapid adoption of hybrid rice technology. 2020-01-01 2024-05-22T12:14:37Z 2024-05-22T12:14:37Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143490 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133206 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133226 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133227 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133316 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133518 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133672 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133684 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134240 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Negi, Digvijay S.; Kumar, Anjani; Birthal, Pratap S.; and Tripathi, Gaurav. 2020. Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1910. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133598. |
| spellingShingle | impact hybrids hybridization rice capacity development crop yield crop production Negi, Digvijay S. Kumar, Anjani Tripathi, Gaurav Birthal, Pratap Singh 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 | impact hybrids hybridization rice capacity development crop yield crop production |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143490 |
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