Yield and Household Income Variability in India's Semi-Arid Tropics

Walker, T S (1989) Yield and Household Income Variability in India's Semi-Arid Tropics. In: Variability in grain yields: implications for agricultural research and policy in developing countries. Johns Hopkins University Press , Baltimore, Maryland, USA, pp. 309-319. ISBN 0-8018-3793-6

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Abstract

This study looks at the relationship between crop yield stability and household income variability for a sample of resource-poor farm households in India's semiarid tropics. It notes that increased yield variability is unlikely to result in significantly high income variability. Thus, little economic value should be attached to the risk-reducing attributes of improved varietal technologies for resource-poor households in India's semiarid tropics.

Item Type:	Book Section
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Subjects:	Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Depositing User:	Library ICRISAT
Date Deposited:	10 Dec 2011 06:43
Last Modified:	10 Dec 2011 07:03
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/4262
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