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Recognition of the potentially deleterious implications of inequality in opportunity originating in a skewed asset distribution has spawned considerable interest in land reforms. However, little attention has been devoted to the fact that, in the longer-term, the measures used to implement land...
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In this paper we study the impact of rising wages on Indian agriculture by measuring the responses to output prices and wages of output, and of both variable and quasi fixed factors. Raising output prices to compensate for rising wages is an unattractive policy, because the medium-term...
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Increasing evidence shows the significance of de jure land ownership in determining agricultural productivity. Yet, causal evidence of the effectiveness of land rights is scarce. We leverage experimental variation induced by nudging Indian farmers to obtain formal land titles. We find that...
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agriculture found to be higher among marginal and small farmers. Moreover, the economic and the environmental cost of production … have been increasingly higher than return from agriculture.The economic and environmental implication of increasing …
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A large number of rural households in the state of Odisha, India are dependent on agriculture for their basic livelihoods, which is affected by the frequent occurrence of climate externalities like cyclones and floods. In response, the farm households do also undertake adaptation measures to...
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adjoining farms. In case it was not done then the government should interfere and acquire lands after paying appropriate …
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various inputs such as seeds, irrigation and fertilizers, the productivity of farms also depends greatly on the availability …
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explain why the smallest farms are most efficient in their use of labor, slightly larger farms least efficient and larger … farms as efficient as the smallest farms. We show that to explain the rising upper tail of the U requires there be economies … ICRISAT VLS panel survey. We find evidence consistent with our model, suggesting that there are too many farms, at scales …
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the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a … environmental management in agriculture as eco-management associated with agricultural production. Second, it specifies spectrum of …. Third, it suggests stages in analysis and improvement of environmental management in agriculture including: identification …
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