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_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.crpBig Dataen_US
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen_US
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen_US
cg.contributor.donorInternational Initiative for Impact Evaluationen_US
cg.coverage.countryIndiaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2INen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.creator.identifierFrancisco Ceballos: 0000-0001-8699-5114en_US
cg.creator.identifierSamyuktha Kannan: 0000-0003-1259-1330en_US
cg.creator.identifierBerber Kramer: 0000-0001-7644-6613en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12633en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Divisionen_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankAen_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn0169-5150en_US
cg.issue3en_US
cg.journalAgricultural Economicsen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.volume52en_US
dc.contributor.authorCeballos, Franciscoen_US
dc.contributor.authorKannan, Samyukthaen_US
dc.contributor.authorKramer, Berberen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:10:15Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:10:15Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142273en_US
dc.titleCrop prices, farm incomes, and food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in India: Phone-based producer survey evidence from Haryana Stateen_US
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_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
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_US
dcterms.extentpp. 525-542en_US
dcterms.issued2021-06-07en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherJohn Wiley & Sonsen_US
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_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/7778en_US
dcterms.subjectrisk coping strategiesen_US
dcterms.subjectsurveysen_US
dcterms.subjectcovid-19en_US
dcterms.subjectcropsen_US
dcterms.subjectfarm incomeen_US
dcterms.subjectfood securityen_US
dcterms.subjectfood pricesen_US
dcterms.subjectrisken_US
dcterms.subjectpricesen_US
dcterms.subjectpandemicsen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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