The impact of India’s farm science centers (Krishi Vigyan Kendras) on farm households’ economic welfare: Evidence from a national farmers survey

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen
cg.contributor.donorIndian Council of Agricultural Researchen
cg.coverage.countryIndiaen
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2INen
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen
cg.creator.identifierAnjani Kumar: 0000-0001-8920-6598en
cg.creator.identifierSunil Saroj: 0000-0001-5820-2092en
cg.creator.identifierPramod Kumar Joshi: 0000-0002-9637-1767en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133226en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Collaborationen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - South Asia Regionen
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden
cg.number1832en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Anjanien
dc.contributor.authorSingh, A. K.en
dc.contributor.authorSaroj, Sunilen
dc.contributor.authorMadhavan M., Mishaen
dc.contributor.authorJoshi, Pramod Kumaren
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:05:20Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:05:20Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/145919
dc.titleThe impact of India’s farm science centers (Krishi Vigyan Kendras) on farm households’ economic welfare: Evidence from a national farmers surveyen
dcterms.abstractThe paper examines the impact of access to India’s farm science centers (Krishi Vigyan Kendras, or KVKs) on agricultural households’ welfare using household-level data from the nationally representative Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households conducted by India’s National Sample Survey Office in 2013. Employing different matching techniques and endogenous switching regression models, we find that the KVKs have a positive and statistically significant impact on agricultural households’ economic welfare, although that impact is heterogeneous. Further, the investments made in expansion of India’s network of KVKs have been quite remunerative, as the benefit-to-cost ratio of expenditure on KVKs ranges from 8 to 12. Moreover, our findings suggest that expanding rural formal credit markets and promoting literacy can maximize the potential impact of KVKs on agricultural households’ economic welfare.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKumar, Anjani; Singh, A. K.; Saroj, Sunil; Madhavan M., Misha; and Joshi, Pramod Kumar. 2019. The impact of India’s farm science centers (Krishi Vigyan Kendras) on farm households’ economic welfare: Evidence from a national farmers survey. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1832. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145919en
dcterms.extent41 pagesen
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2019-05-02en
dcterms.languageenen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133142en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147886en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147009en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133518en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133672en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133684en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134222en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/133226en
dcterms.subjectmodelsen
dcterms.subjectextensionen
dcterms.subjecteconomic growthen
dcterms.subjectregression analysisen
dcterms.subjectagricultural extensionen
dcterms.subjectbenefit-cost ratioen
dcterms.subjectsurveysen
dcterms.subjectfarm science centersen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectextension systemsen
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectstatistical methodsen
dcterms.subjectimpact assessmenten
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen

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