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Divergent energy transitions: Agricultural mechanization and domestic energy poverty among farming households in rural Pakistan by Raja, Sehrish, Alvi, Muzna, Ringler, Claudia

“…This study examines dual energy portfolios among farming households in Rahim Yar Khan district, in Punjab, Pakistan. Using cross-sectional data from 1018 households, we analyze how the distinct but interconnected energy domains onfarm and at-home, relate to household wealth and location, but follow fundamentally different transition trajectories. …”
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Reimagining cost recovery in Pakistan’s irrigation system through willingness-to-pay estimates for irrigation water from a discrete choice experiment by Bell, A.R., Ali Shah, Azeem M., Ward, Patrick S.

“…In this paper, we use a discrete choice experiment to study farmer preferences for irrigation characteristics along two branch canals in Punjab Province in eastern Pakistan. We find that farmers are generally willing to pay well in excess of current surface water irrigation costs for increased surface water reliability and that the amount that farmers are willing to pay is an increasing function of their existing surface water supply as well as location along the main canal branch. …”
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Equity in a tertiary canal of the Indus Basin Irrigation System (IBIS) by Ali Shah, Azeem M., Anwar, Arif A., Bell, A.R., Ul Haq, Zia

“…The methodology is applied to a tertiary canal located in the Punjab, Province of Pakistan. Fairness/equity is expressed quantitatively using the Gini index. …”
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An interdisciplinary framework for using archaeology, history and collective action to enhance India’s agricultural resilience and sustainability by Green, A. S., Dixit, S., Garg, K. K., Sandya, N. R., Singh, G., Vatta, K., Whitbread, Anthony M., Jones, M. K., Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A

“…It compares past and present strategies for water management and use in semi-arid and temperate Punjab with equatorial Telangana. Structural differences in water use in these two regions suggest that a range of interventions should be adopted to expand the overall availability of surface water for agricultural systems in India, in combination with empowering local communities to create their own water management rules. …”
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Assessing feasibility and effects of personalized remote advisories based on smartphone pictures: A formative evaluation in India by Ceballos, Francisco, Kannan, Samyuktha, Kramer, Berber

“…This paper provides a formative evaluation of picture-based advisories (PBA), using a cluster randomized trial in the states of Punjab and Haryana in northern India. The study randomly assigned 203 villages to one of three treatment arms: a control group, in which farmers received generic agricultural advisories; a PBA treatment arm, in which farmers received not only generic advisories but also PBA messages personalized based on smartphone images of their crops; and a treatment arm in which farmers received picture-based insurance (PBI) coverage for visible damage to insured crops in addition to the generic and PBA messages. …”
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A user’s guide to data from Round 1.5 of the Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey (PRHPS) 2012 by International Food Policy Research Institute, Innovative Development Strategies

“…Round 1.5 covers 942 agricultural households in 76 primary sampling units in the rural areas of three provinces namely: (i) Punjab; (ii) Sindh; and (iii) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). …”
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Social Accounting Matrix for Okara District, Pakistan: A Water Resources Accountability in Pakistan (WRAP) Project Analysis by Davies, Stephen, Ali, Muhammad Tahir, Akram, Iqra, Hafeez, Mohsin

“…The aim of this paper is to develop a document to guide the methodology and data resources used to develop a local Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Okara district in Punjab, Pakistan, and to provide an overview of the SAM results. …”
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Initial establishment of a farmer-based expriment network in the Indo-Gangetic Plans (IGP) Region: Pilot project for on-farm participatory climate change adaptation and visualizati... by Mathur, P.N.

“…Four project sites, namely: Karnal, Haryana; Ludhiana, Punjab; Pusa, Bihar; and Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, were identified and agreed upon. …”
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Potential and challenges in up-scaling micro-irrigation in India: experiences from nine states. by Kuppannan, Palanisami, Raman, S.

“…Majority of the MI adopters we sampled in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa and Punjab were small farmers. In contrast, in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, majority of MI adopters we found were large farmers. …”
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Solar irrigation pumps: can electricity buy-back curb groundwater over-use? by Franklin, Bradley

“…In this paper, estimates of water and electricity demand are derived for Punjab state and used to inform what an effective buyback scheme might entail. …”
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Adoption of potato varieties and their role for climate change adaptation in India by Pradel, W., Gatto, M., Hareau, Guy, Pandey, S.K., Bhardway, V.

“…Release and adoption data was collected in 2016 in six expert elicitation workshops conducted with 130 experts from the potato value chain in Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. We found that from the total of 81 releases, 45 improved varieties are adopted in India and that in each state high resistant and tolerant varieties are cultivated providing some degree of varietal resilience. …”
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Minimum support prices in India: Distilling the facts by Gupta, Prankur, Khera, Reetika, Narayanan, Sudha

“…According to these popular misconceptions, very few farmers (6 per cent only) benefit from MSP and government procurement, only large farmers benefit, and only farmers of Punjab and Haryana (and, to some extent, western Uttar Pradesh) benefit. …”
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The adoption and impact of food safety measures on smallholder dairy farmers’ economic welfare: Evidence from the Indo-Gangetic plains of India. by Katoch, Sonali, Kumar, Anjani, Kolady, Deepthi E., Sharma, Kriti

“…This study examines the adoption of compliance with food safety measures (FSM) using cross-sectional data collected at the farm level in three key states of the Indo-Gangetic Plains, Bihar, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh in 2023. A Food Safety Index (FSI) was developed to assess the intensity of adoption of food safety practices. …”
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Poverty, household food security, and nutrition in rural Pakistan by Alderman, Harold, Garcia, Marito

“…In this report Harold Alderman and Marito Garcia address these concerns by looking at longitudinal data for a three-year period, 1986-89, and analyzing fluctuations in incomes, consumption, savings, nutrition and health-seeking behavior of 800 households in five districts in rural Pakistan (Faisalabad and Attock in Punjab province, Badin in Sind, Dir in North-West Frontier Province, and Mastung/Kalat in Baluchistan). …”
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Trade-offs between early planting and yellow rust resistance in wheat: Insights from screening experiments in the Indo-Gangetic plain by Farhad, Md, Tripathi, Shashi Bhushan, Singh, Ravi Prakash, Joshi, Arun, Bhati, Pradeep Kumar, Kumar, Uttam

“…A wheat screening experiment was carried out at the Borlaug Institute of South Asia located in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. The purpose of the study was to gain a deeper understanding of the adaptation patterns of early planted wheat. …”
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The socio-ecology of groundwater in India by International Water Management Institute

“…Urgent priorities are areas with low supplies of renewable groundwater but alarmingly high groundwater use, such as Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab and Haryana.…”
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Diesel price hike and the energy squeeze on Pakistan's smallholder irrigators by Ul-Hassan, Mehmood, Shah, Tushaar, Ur Rehman, S., Khattak, M.Z., Tanwir, F., Saboor, A., Lashari, Bakhshal K.

“…Based on a synthesis of qualitative assessment from 9 village level case studies carried out in NWFP, Punjab and Sindh provinces of Pakistan, where diesel and electric pumps are essential for sustaining irrigated agriculture, the paper confirms that the recent hike in diesel prices have proven to be the proverbial last straw on camel's back for the livelihoods of small farmers and tenants. …”
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Perceptions and preparedness of veterinarians to combat brucellosis through Brucellosis Control Programme in India by Shome, R., Nagalingam, M., Priya, R., Sahay, S., Kalleshamurthy, T., Sharma, A., Bambal, R.G., Rahman, Habibur, Shome, B.R.

“…Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted during 2013-2015 and 453 veterinarians representing 11 states/Union Territories (UT) of India (Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Goa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, and Punjab) were interviewed using self-administered questionnaire. …”
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Farmers’ awareness and perceptions of the new farm laws 2020 in India: Empirical evidence from a household survey by Kumar, Anjani, Sonkar, Vinay Kumar, Bathla, Seema

“…This has provoked serious discussion, criticism and even protest, especially in Punjab and Haryana to the extent that the Supreme Court put them on hold for some time. …”
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Picture-based crop insurance (PBI): Using farmers’ smartphone pictures to reduce basis risk and costs of loss verification by Ceballos, Francisco, Kramer, Berber, Mishra, Azad, Robles, Miguel, Toor, Mann S.

“…The study was conducted in Haryana and Punjab, two states in northwest India. These two states are the second and third largest wheat producing states in India and the largest contributors to the central pool of food grains used to provide welfare entitlements to India’s poor. …”
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