Search Results - "Punjab"

A user’s guide to data from Round 2 of the Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey (PRHPS) 2013 by International Food Policy Research Institute, Innovative Development Strategies

“…The RHPS covers 2090 households in 76 primary sampling units in the rural areas of three provinces: (i) Punjab; (ii) Sindh; and (iii) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). …”
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Impact of subsidized fortified wheat on anaemia in pregnant Indian women by Chakrabarti, Suman, Kishore, Avinash, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Scott, Samuel P.

“…The difference‐in‐differences method was used to estimate the impact on haemoglobin (Hb) and anaemia in pregnant women living in northern India (Punjab) and southern India (Tamil Nadu), with pregnant women in neighbouring states without wheat fortification programmes serving as controls. …”
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Compliance with food safety measures and their economic impact on smallholder dairy farmers: Evidence from the Indo-Gangetic plains of India by Katoch, Sonali, Kumar, Anjani, Kolady, Deepthi E., Sharma, Kriti

“…This study examines the adoption and economic impact of compliance with food safety measures (FSM) using cross-sectional farm-level data from three key states in the Indo-Gangetic Plains, Bihar, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh, in 2023. The majority of the farmers were operating on marginal and small plots. …”
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Unraveling the stable green super rice lines across the multi-environment yield trials by Ullah, Mati

“…A total of 516 healthy and diseased farmed fish samples belong to Cypriniformes order were collected from various regions of Punjab and screened for E. coli. Biochemical tests and PCR confirmation were conducted using the 16S rRNA and UspA genes. …”
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Geographic and research center origins of rice resistance to Asian planthoppers and leafhoppers: implications for rice breeding and gene deployment by Horgan, Finbarr G., Srinivasan, Thanga, Bentur, Jagadish, Kumar, Ram, Bhanu, K., Sarao, Preetinder, Chien, Ho, Almazan, Maria, Bernal, Carmencita, Ramal, Angelee, Ferrater, Jedeliza, Huang, Shou-Horng

“…Nilaparvata lugens populations from Punjab (India) and the Mekong Delta (Vietnam) were highly virulent to a range of key resistance donors irrespective of variety origin. …”
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Nitrogen supply in rice-based cropping systems as affected by crop residue management by Thuy, Nguyen Hong, Shan, Yuhua, Bijay-Singh, Wang, Kairong, Cai, Zucong, Yadvinder-Singh, Buresh, Roland J.

“…The experiments included a rice–wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) rotation at Yixing, Jiangsu Province, China; a rice–wheat rotation at Ludhiana, Punjab, India; and double‐rice cropping at Taojiang, Hunan Province, China. …”
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Mapping energy use portfolios and household outcomes in Pakistan: Insights from farm and household surveys in Rahim Yar Khan by Sufian, Farha, Alvi, Muzna, Raja, Sehrish

“…This policy note examines the rural energy portfolio in Rahim Yar Khan (RYK), in the Punjab province of Pakistan, and its association with household well-being outcomes. …”
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Navigating climate change, disasters and displacement in Pakistan: a case study of Rahim Yar Khan by Khalid, Sidra, Hafeez, Mohsin, Junaid, Novaira, Aeman, Hafsa

“…Under the CGIAR Initiative on Fragility, Conflict and Migration (FCM), the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Pakistan conducted a comprehensive research case study in Rahim Yar Khan (RYK), a disaster-prone district (and host community to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and migrants from neighboring areas) in the Punjab province of Pakistan, focusing on the 2022 floods to evaluate the vulnerabilities of climate-displaced households, assess the impacts on FLWS, and propose strategies to improve disaster resilience. …”
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Impacts of lining, maintenance and operations on water delivery performance in Pakistan by Murray-Rust, Hammond, Vander Velde, E.J., Merrey, Douglas J.

“…A comparative study of hydraulic performance of three secondary canals in Pakistan's Punjab was undertaken to determine the relative benefits of three physical interventions: (1) focusing standard maintenance inputs using a computer-based model to analyze the effects of work in specific locations in a small distributary, (2) major desilting involving mechanical excavation of sediment in a medium sized canal, and (3) lining of the lower two-thirds of a major distributary. …”
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Engineering and malaria control: learning from the past 100 years by Konradsen, Flemming, Hoek, Wim van der, Amerasinghe, Felix P., Mutero, Clifford M., Boelee, Eline

“…The objective of this paper is to describe the experiences gained in Asia with early vector control interventions focusing on cases from the former Indian Punjab, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. The paper deals primarily with the agricultural engineering and land and water management vector control interventions implemented in the period 1900-1950. …”
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Sustainable use of groundwater for irrigation: a numerical analysis of the subsoil water fluxes by Ahmad, Mobin-ud-Din, Bastiaanssen, Wim G.M., Feddes, R.A.

“…In this study, the physically based numerical model Soil-Water-Atmosphere-Plant (SWAP) was applied to compute soil moisture content and vertical soil water luxes in the unsaturated zone for the cotton-wheat and rice-wheat cropping system of Punjab, Pakistan. SWAP has been calibrated and verified with in situ measurements of soil moisture content and evapotranspiration fluxes measured by means of the Bowen ratio surface energy balance technique. …”
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Increased arid and semi-arid areas in India with associated shifts during 1971-2004 by Kesava Rao AVR, Wani, S.P., Singh, K.K., Ahmed, M.I., Srinivas K, Bairagi SD, Amadevi O

“…Increased semi-arid area by 8.45 M ha in five states viz., Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Punjab, and decreased semi-arid area by 5 M ha in eleven states, contributed to overall increase in SAT area of 3.45 M ha in the country.Overall, there has been a net reduction of 10.71 M ha in the dry sub-humid area in the country. …”
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Agricultural labor, COVID-19, and potential implications for food security and air quality in the breadbasket of India by Singh, Balwinder, Shirsath, Paresh Bhaskar, Jat, Mangi Lal, McDonald, Andrew J., Srivastava, Amit, Craufurd, Peter Q., Rana, Dharamvir Singh, Singh, Anil K, Chaudhari, Suresh K, Sharma, Parbodh Chander, Singh, Rajbir P, Jat, Hanuman Sahay, Sidhu, Harminder S., Gerard, Bruno G., Braun, Hans-Joachim

“…Migrants provide the foundations of the agricultural workforce in the ‘breadbasket’ states of Punjab and Haryana in Northwest India.There are mounting concerns that near and potentially longer-term reductions in labor availability may jeopardize agricultural production and consequently national food security. …”
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Strengthening groundwater governance in Pakistan by Rana, Abdul Wajid, Gill, Sitara, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., ElDidi, Hagar

“…To understand the perspectives of groundwater users, a qualitative study was conducted in the alluvial groundwater systems of Punjab as well as the hard rock systems of Balochistan. …”
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Large survey dataset of rice production practices applied by farmers on their largest farm plot during 2018 in India by Ajay, Anurag, Craufurd, Peter, Kumar, Virender, Samaddar, Arindam, Malik, R.K., Sharma, Sachin, Ranjan, Harshit, Singh, A.K., Paudel, Gokul, Pundir, Ajay Kumar, Poonia, Shishpal, Kumar, Anurag, Kumar, Pankaj, Singh, Deepak Kumar, Singh, Madhulika, Iftikar, Wasim, Ignatius, Moben, Banik, Narayan, Mohapatra, Bidhan, Sagwal, Pardeep, Yadav, Ashok Kumar, Munshi, Sugandha, Panneerselvam, Peramaiyan, McDonald, Andrew

“…The dataset, n = 8355, covers eight Indian states, viz., Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Odisha, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Sampling frames were constructed separately for each district within states and farmers were selected randomly. …”
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Herbicide options for weed control in dry-seeded aromatic rice in India by Mahajan, Gulshan, Chauhan, Bhagirath S.

“…A study comprising 12 treatments was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of PRE (pendimethalin and pyrazosulfuron) and POST herbicides (bispyribac, penoxsulam, and azimsulfuron) applied either alone or in a sequence for weed control in dry-seeded fine rice cv. ‘Punjab Mehak 1’. Results indicated that the single application of pendimethalin (750 g ai ha−1) PRE, pyrazosulfuron (15 g ai ha−1) PRE, bispyribac-sodium (25 g ai ha−1) POST, penoxsulam (25 g ai ha−1) POST, and azimsulfuron (20 g ai ha−1) POST reduced total weed biomass by 75, 68, 73, 70, and 72%, respectively, compared with the nontreated control at flowering stage of the crop. …”
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Long-term effects of organic inputs on yield and soil fertility in the rice-wheat rotation by Yadvinder-Singh, Bijay-Singh, Ladha, J.K., Khind, C.S., Gupta, R.K., Meelu, O.P., Pasuquin, E.

“….); wheat straw (WS), farmyard manure (FYM), and urea on yields and yield trends; P and K balance; and soil fertility in a rice–wheat experiment (1988–2000) on a loamy sand in Punjab, India. Rice yields were comparable with GM + urea, WS + GM + urea, and urea alone, but yields were reduced when FYM was supplemented with N. …”
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Constraints and opportunities for water savings and increasing productivity through Resource Conservation Technologies in Pakistan by Ahmad, M.D., Masih, I., Giordano, Mark

“…This paper uses both physical measurements and farmer survey data from the rice-wheat cropping system of Punjab, Pakistan to explain the main drivers of RCT adoption and their impacts on land and water productivity and water savings across scales. …”
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Formal versus informal: Efficiency, inclusiveness, and financing of dairy value chains in India by Chand, Ramesh, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Saxena, Raka, Rajkhowa, Pallavi, Khan, Md. Tajuddin, Khan, Mohd. Arshad, Chaudhary, Khyali R., Birthal, Pratap Singh

“…Using data from a survey of 612 households from the state of Punjab, India, this paper evaluates farmers’ choices of dairy value chains and their financing mechanisms. …”
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Rice residue burning trajectories in Eastern India: current realities, scenarios of change, and implications for air quality by Urban Cordeiro, Emily, Hamilton, Douglas S., Rossiter, D.G., Mahowald, Natalie, Hess, Peter, Malik, Ram, Singh, Ajoy, Samaddar, Arindam, McDonald, A.J.

“…If historical burning trends intensify and Bihar resembles the Northwest States of Punjab and Haryana by 2050, 46 d would exceed the WHO standard for PM2.5 in Bihar’s capital region.…”
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