Structural transformation and agricultural productivity in India.

Binswanger, Hans P.; Dsouza, Alwin; Fuglie, Keith O.; Wang, S. L.; Ball, V. Eldon

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“…In the Recovery period, these two growth sources accounted for 60% of output growth. Diversification is thus also an important growth source, as argued by Singh and Pal (2010) and Binswanger-Mkhize and d'Souza (2012). Product diversification has been shown to improve small-farm incomes (Birthal et al, 2008); although its commercialization may worsen India's cross-region income disparities.…”

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“…Recent acceleration of Indian agricultural growth has widely been regarded as an outcome of private capital formation, improved agricultural trade terms, and subsidies for credit, fertilizer, and seed (Chand and Parappurathu, ). Others say it has been a by‐product of output diversification into horticulture and livestock products, itself a response to the demands of newly wealthy Indian households (Binswanger‐Mkhize and d'Souza, ; Singh and Pal, ). Our purpose is to show that while both views have merit, they provide an incomplete picture of India's growth renewal.…”

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India's post‐green‐revolution agricultural performance: what is driving growth?

Rada

2016

Agricultural Economics

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Following a period of poor performance in the 1990s, India's agricultural growth rate has reaccelerated in the 2000s. Some believe the reacceleration has been a product of intensified investment, which in turn has spurred yield growth. Others suggest it is because India's newly wealthy citizens have demanded greater product diversification. To examine these hypotheses, we use growth accounting techniques in conjunction with more complete agricultural production data than in past studies to construct state, regional, and national output, input, and total factor productivity quantity indexes, which can be decomposed into their underlying sources. Sectoral performance evaluation suggests that, since 1980, output growth has diffused away from the northern "grain belt" and toward high-value agriculture in traditionally less-productive regions. Productivity growth, rather than resource use, has accounted for these geographical and intensity shifts. The growth burst has not, as the literature has primarily argued, been uniquely explainable by yield growth or product diversification but by a variety of factors, including area expansion. For example, the contributions of irrigation technologies permitting double-cropping have until now been largely ignored. JEL classifications: O13, O30, Q10These quantity indexes afford spatial and temporal performance examinations of India's agricultural sector in a post-Green Revolution time frame, a period capturing its recent production shift toward high-valued commodities. Our findings suggest that as India has transitioned out of the Green Revolution, the agricultural sector's TFP growth has diffused away from the northern "grain belt" and become a national phenomenon, led by accelerated production growth in horticulture and livestock products. We also find that India's recent agricultural growth was lifted by a balanced set of growth benefits arising not only from advancing yields-as argued by Chand and Parappurathu (2012)-and product diversification-as argued by Singh and Pal (2010) and Binswanger-Mkhize and d'Souza (2012)-but also by area expansion. Indeed, the contribution of area expansion, reflecting the role of irrigation, has been largely neglected in the literature. Yet, we find it has substantially contributed to India's recent agricultural growth.

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India's post‐green‐revolution agricultural performance: what is driving growth?

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2016

Agricultural Economics

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“…traditional area of the village occupied by a caste) are changing (Datta and Rustagi 2012). As a result of male out-migration in poor and low caste households of Bihar, women’s involvement in the agricultural workforce is even greater as women have become the de facto head of the households (Rao 2006; Binswanger-Mkhizer and D’Souza 2012). …”

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The diversity of gendered adaptation strategies to climate change of Indian farmers: A feminist intersectional approach

Ravera

Martín‐López

Pascual

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Ambio

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This paper examines climate change adaptation and gender issues through an application of a feminist intersectional approach. This approach permits the identification of diverse adaptation responses arising from the existence of multiple and fragmented dimensions of identity (including gender) that intersect with power relations to shape situation-specific interactions between farmers and ecosystems. Based on results from contrasting research cases in Bihar and Uttarakhand, India, this paper demonstrates, inter alia, that there are geographically determined gendered preferences and adoption strategies regarding adaptation options and that these are influenced by the socio-ecological context and institutional dynamics. Intersecting identities, such as caste, wealth, age and gender, influence decisions and reveal power dynamics and negotiation within the household and the community, as well as barriers to adaptation among groups. Overall, the findings suggest that a feminist intersectional approach does appear to be useful and worth further exploration in the context of climate change adaptation. In particular, future research could benefit from more emphasis on a nuanced analysis of the intra-gender differences that shape adaptive capacity to climate change.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0833-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…Rural consumption depends on income from agriculture as well as from rural non-farm activities, which are related to agricultural GDP. Thus overall rural consumption is related to agricultural GDP, while urban consumption is related to non-agricultural GDP, using statistically estimated relationships consistent with the observed trend (Binswanger, Hans and d'Souza, 2012).Total population is distributed between urban and rural populations based on exogenously stipulated urban/rural consumption parity ratio that declines from 2.35 as reflected in the SAM of 2003-2004 to 1.75 by 2039 as reflected in the National Sample Survey (NSS) data.A particularly important feature of the model is a demand system that can predict the consumption behaviour of income classes at much higher income levels at which income elasticities of demand for food will be much lower than today. We were able to estimate a flexible trans-log demand system that allows for declining income elasticities that do not fall below zero-without having to make ad hoc assumptions about consumer behaviour at very high income levels using the data from the NSS and Central Statistical Organization (CSO) and adjusting for their differences.…”

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Rapid Economic Growth in India

Parikh

Ghosh

Binswanger

2016

The Indian Economic Journal

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We explore till 2040 the role of technical change in agriculture, irrigation and concern for food security in rapid economic growth in India. India aspires to achieve double-digit growth. For a densely populated country of 1.2 billion people with growing incomes meeting its increasing and diversifying food needs will be a challenge. We explore this using a multi-sector, inter-temporal optimising model with 20 expenditure classes, 10 rural and 10 urban, each with its own linear expenditure system derived from an underlying non-linear demand system. We also assess the diversification of demand that is likely to occur and impact on poverty under different alternatives. At least a 4 per cent growth rate of agricultural gross domestic product (GDP) is needed to support GDP growth rates in excess of 8 per cent for which a slightly optimistic agriculture TFPG growth rate of 2 per cent along with a slightly optimistic development of irrigation potential to 90 million hectare (Mha) (net) is needed. JEL Classification: C61, C67, O13, O21, O33Keywords India, economic growth, agricultural growth, technical change, irrigation, import restrictions I. Background and Importance of the IssuesThe Indian economy attained a growth rate exceeding 7.5 per cent from 2000 to 2010, at a rate exceeding 9 per cent from 2004 to 2007 and 8.5 per cent from 2004 to 2010. The election of Narendra Modi as prime minister has created much optimism that India can attain a double-digit growth rate and sustain it for few decades like China. Corresponding author:Kirit S. Parikh, Modelling Group at Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), C80 Shivalik, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110017, India. E-mail: kparikh@irade.org 116 The Indian Economic Journal 64(1-4)The role of agricultural growth in economic growth has been a much-debated issue in India. Dantwala (1976), Rudra (1967), Chakravarty (1987), Taylor (1992) and Ravallion and Datt (1996) among others have explored the impact of pricing and redistribution policies and sectoral composition on the poor. The 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) targets a growth rate of 4 per cent for agriculture. Of course, for a tradable sector, there is no minimum growth rate required for any particular growth rate of the economy. However, agricultural growth is important for India as it still employs 50 per cent of the rural labour even though its share in GDP was only 16 per cent at constant prices in 2011-2012. Thus it plays an important role in determining the level of poverty.Thus an important question that we address is, 'What are the implications of agricultural growth for economic growth and poverty over the next three decades? ' Continued population growth and double-digit economic growth that is inclusive will drive up food demand rapidly and change its composition. Significant diversification in agricultural production has taken place over time. India has become the world's largest producer of milk and pulses. More than half the value added in agriculture in the triennium ending (TE) [200...

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Structural transformation and agricultural productivity in India.

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India's post‐green‐revolution agricultural performance: what is driving growth?

India's post‐green‐revolution agricultural performance: what is driving growth?

The diversity of gendered adaptation strategies to climate change of Indian farmers: A feminist intersectional approach

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