This study measures the willingness of male and female farmers to pay for climate-smart technology in rice. Rice is the … most important crop in India in terms of area, production, and consumption. It is also the biggest source of greenhouse gas … and is more climate friendly than transplanted rice; yet, its adoption is slow in India. The authors of this study carried …

biotechnology, and whether their research and development efforts would benefit poor and vulnerable farmers in hazard …-prone ecosystems. We employ discrete choice experiments to examine farmers' preferences for DT traits and explore heterogeneity in … these preferences using primary data collected in rural Bihar, India. Using different modeling approaches to capture …

varieties of paddy in Odisha, Eastern India. Using an endogenous switching regression model, the study has found that a minimum … productivity in the case of adopters of modern technology. The study suggests that farmers’ field school program must be …

Abiotic stresses such as droughts and floods significantly constrain rice production in India. New stress …-tolerant technologies have the potential to reduce yield variability and help insulate farmers from the risks posed by these hazards. This … conducted in rural Odisha, we estimate farmers' valuation for drought-tolerant and submergence-tolerant traits embodied in paddy …