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1 Joshi, P. K.; Gulati, A.; Birthal, P. S.; Tewari, L. 2004. Agriculture diversification in South Asia: Patterns, determinants and policy implications. Economic and Political Weekly, 39(24):2457-2467.
Agricultural economics ; Agricultural production ; Crops ; Diversification ; Mapping ; Livestock ; Fisheries ; Food security ; Agricultural policy / South Asia / India
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 6981 Record No: H035229)
2 Kishore, A.; Birthal, P. S.; Joshi, P. K.; Shah, Tushaar; Saini, A. 2016. Patterns and drivers of dairy development in India: insights from analysis of household and district-level data. Agricultural Economics Research Review, 29(1):1-14. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5958/0974-0279.2016.00014.8]
Dairy production ; Milk production ; Households ; Smallholders ; Urbanization ; Crop production ; Crop management ; Diversification ; Farmers ; Bovines ; Cattle ; Buffaloes ; Groundwater irrigation ; Land ownership ; Population density ; Fertilizer application ; Economic growth / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047946)
Traditionally, Indian farmers kept bovines, especially cattle, for draught purposes in agriculture and transportation with milk as an adjunct. However, with increasing farm mechanization and rising demand for milk, the bovine functions have shifted more towards dairying. While bovine population has been increasing, the chronic scarcity of feed and fodder reinforces the need for optimization of bovine population for sustainable growth of dairying. In this paper, using district-level data from 1997 to 2007, we show that this transformation from draught to dairying is underway in some parts of the country, and further using household-level data, we find that smallholders have contributed disproportionately more to this transformation. This transformation or intensification of dairying is demand-driven with urbanization having a strong positive influence on dairy development. On the supply-side, factors like farm mechanization, improved access to groundwater irrigation and crop diversification away from cereals, are associated with a shift in the bovine economy from draught to dairying.
3 Vatta, K.; Sidhu, R. S.; Lall, U.; Birthal, P. S.; Taneja, G.; Kaur, B.; Devineni, N.; MacAlister, C. 2018. Assessing the economic impact of a low-cost water-saving irrigation technology in Indian Punjab: the tensiometer. Water International, 43(2):305-321. (Special issue: Climate Change and Adaptive Water Management: Innovative Solutions from the Global South). [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1416443]
Water conservation ; Appropriate technology ; Irrigation scheduling ; Tensiometers ; Economic impact ; Surpluses ; Groundwater ; Water use ; Energy consumption ; Electricity ; Agriculture ; Rice ; Farmers ; Socioeconomic environment ; Regression analysis / India / Punjab
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H048598)
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This article assesses the impact of the tensiometer on the consumption of groundwater and electric power in paddy cultivation in Indian Punjab, and its subsequent economic benefits. We find that compared to the continuous flooding method, the tensiometer-based application of irrigation reduces water and power consumption by 13%, cutting variable costs by 7% without any yield penalty. If 30% of the paddy area is irrigated following tensiometer-based schedules, then the state could save a total of 0.67 million ha m of water and 1516 million kWh of electric power in 2010–2025, with aggregate economic benefits of US$ 459 million.
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