Singh, Priyanka and Choudhary, B B and Sharma, Purushottam and Kumar, Sunil and Dev, I and Singh, R and Garg, K K and Chand, K and Ram, A and Kumar, N and Arunachalam, A (2024) Impacts of soil and water conservation measures on farm technical efficiency in the semi-arid tropics of central India. Environmental Conservation. pp. 1-8. ISSN 0376-8929
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Abstract
Natural resources such as soil and water are essential to agriculture, especially in arid and semi-arid rain-fed areas, yet the impacts of managing these crucial natural resources on farm technical efficiency are little known. Using data from 400 households with 1031 plots, we examined the impacts of soil and water conservation measures (SWCMs) on the technical efficiency of farmers in the semi-arid Bundelkhand (central India). We estimated stochastic production frontiers, considering potential self-selection bias stemming from both observable and unobservable factors in the adoption of SWCMs at the farm level. The farm technical efficiency for adopters of SWCMs ranged from 0.68 to 0.72, and that for non-adopters ranged from 0.52 to 0.65, depending on how biases were controlled for. As the average efficiency is consistently higher for adopter farmers than the control group, promoting SWCMs could help to increase input use efficiency, especially in resource-deprived rain-fed systems in the semi-arid tropics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Divisions: | Global Research Program - Resilient Farm and Food Systems |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bundelkhand, self-selection bias, soil and water conservation, stochastic production frontier, technical efficiency |
| Subjects: | Others > Soil Science Others > India Others > Water Conservation |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2024 06:12 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2024 06:12 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12832 |
| Official URL: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environmen... |
| Projects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Acknowledgement: | The support of the field staff of the KISAN MITrA project for data collection is duly acknowledged. Special thanks are given to the editor of the journal and reviewers for their critical comments that helped to improve the manuscript. |
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