Crop prices, farm incomes, and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in India: Phone-based producer survey evidence from Haryana State

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpBig Data
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.donorInternational Initiative for Impact Evaluationen
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierFrancisco Ceballos: 0000-0001-8699-5114
cg.creator.identifierSamyuktha Kannan: 0000-0003-1259-1330
cg.creator.identifierBerber Kramer: 0000-0001-7644-6613
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12633en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankA
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0169-5150en
cg.issue3en
cg.journalAgricultural Economicsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume52en
dc.contributor.authorCeballos, Franciscoen
dc.contributor.authorKannan, Samyukthaen
dc.contributor.authorKramer, Berberen
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:10:15Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:10:15Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142273
dc.titleCrop prices, farm incomes, and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in India: Phone-based producer survey evidence from Haryana Stateen
dcterms.abstractIn March 2020, India declared a nationwide lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Such restrictions on mobility interrupted the normal functioning of agricultural value chains. For a sample of 1767 tomato and wheat producers in the state of Haryana, we study to what extent the lockdown limited access to inputs, labor, machinery, and markets to produce, harvest, and sell their crops. We quantify crop income reductions during the first months of the lockdown and analyze to what extent these are associated with borrowing and food insecurity. We find that wheat producers, for whom state-led procurement guaranteed market access at fixed prices, suffered minimal declines in income. For tomato producers—an already more vulnerable population—income fell by 50% relative to their expected income in a normal year, largely due to a steep fall of tomato prices as they shifted from wholesale markets to local retail markets, resulting in a sharp increase in local supply. Relative to wheat producers affected by the lockdown, reduced income for tomato producers was associated with an increase in borrowing and reduced food security. We conclude that targeting producers of crops that face substantial price risk and introducing policies that stabilize market prices are important in efforts to aid recovery and build resilience of smallholder farmers.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCeballos, Francisco; Kannan, Samyuktha; and Kramer, Berber. 2021. Crop prices, farm incomes, and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in India: Phone-based producer survey evidence from Haryana State. Agricultural Economics 52(3): 525-542. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12633en
dcterms.extentpp. 525-542en
dcterms.issued2021-06-07
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherJohn Wiley & Sonsen
dcterms.relationhttps://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/connectivity-for-good/mobile-for-development/gsma_resources/covid-19-accelerating-the-use-of-digital-agriculture/en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/7778en
dcterms.subjectrisk coping strategiesen
dcterms.subjectsurveysen
dcterms.subjectcovid-19en
dcterms.subjectcropsen
dcterms.subjectfarm incomeen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectfood pricesen
dcterms.subjectrisken
dcterms.subjectpricesen
dcterms.subjectpandemicsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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