Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Centeren
cg.contributor.affiliationUnique Land Use GmbHen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Michiganen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Bonnen
cg.contributor.affiliationIndian Council of Agricultural Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Groningenen
cg.contributor.crpWheat
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.donorNature Conservancyen
cg.contributor.donorIndian Council of Agricultural Researchen
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.initiativeTransforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.creator.identifierVijesh Krishna: 0000-0003-2191-4736
cg.creator.identifierBalwinder-Singh: 0000-0002-6715-2207
cg.creator.identifierML JAT: 0000-0003-0582-1126
cg.creator.identifierOlaf Erenstein: 0000-0002-7491-5786
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2022.772732en
cg.issn2673-3218en
cg.journalFrontiers in Agronomyen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.volume4en
dc.contributor.authorKrishna, Vijesh V.en
dc.contributor.authorKeil, Alwinen
dc.contributor.authorJain, Mehaen
dc.contributor.authorWeiqi Zhouen
dc.contributor.authorJose, Monishen
dc.contributor.authorSurendran-Padmaja, Subashen
dc.contributor.authorBarba-Escoto, Luisen
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Balwinderen
dc.contributor.authorJat, Mangi Lalen
dc.contributor.authorErenstein, Olafen
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-11T09:02:53Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-11T09:02:53Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/126826
dc.titleConservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impactsen
dcterms.abstractRice and wheat production in the intensive, irrigated farming systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) is associated with significant negative environmental and health externalities. Conservation Agriculture (CA) has the potential to curb some of these externalities while enhancing farm income. However, farmer adoption of CA remains modest in the Indian IGP. The present study focuses on the constraints to adopting the major CA component, zero tillage (ZT). We examine whether ZT wheat is feasible for smallholders and the potential of technology targeting to realize faster and wider diffusion. Econometric models and machine learning algorithms were used to analyze remote sensing data and farm household data collected from the Indian states of Punjab and Bihar, two contrasting agrarian economies of the IGP. While farmer adoption was low among smallholders (owning <2 ha of land), the on-farm effects of ZT on variable cost reduction and yield and profit enhancement for smallholders are comparable to large farmers. We estimate the economic potential of technology targeting using an equilibrium displacement model. In the relatively developed state of Punjab, technology targeting based on landholding size does not appear to add substantive economic benefits. In Bihar, a less prosperous state with a dominance of smallholders in the population, technology targeting could markedly enhance economic surplus and reduce rural poverty.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2022-03-30
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKrishna, V. V., Keil, A., Jain, M., Zhou, W., Jose, M., Surendran-Padmaja, S., Barba-Escoto, L., Balwinder-Singh, Jat, M. L., & Erenstein, O. (2022). Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts. Frontiers in Agronomy, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2022.772732en
dcterms.issued2022-03-15
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Mediaen
dcterms.subjectzero tillageen
dcterms.subjectinclusionen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjecteconomic impacten
dcterms.subjectremote sensingen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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