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Assessing the Impact of Crop Diversification on Farm Poverty in India by Birthal, Pratap S., Roy, Devesh, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…•Diversification toward high-value agriculture and poverty link not studied rigorously.•This paper finds significant effect of diversification on…”
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The impact of direct benefit transfers for micro-irrigation on farm performance: Evidence from India by Kishore, Prabhat, Birthal, Pratap S.

“…Using data from a survey of farm households in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and employing a sequential logit model, this paper has investigated the impact…”
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Farmers’ choice of market channels and producer prices in India: Role of transportation and communication networks by Negi, Digvijay S., Birthal, Pratap S., Roy, Devesh, Khan, Md. Tajuddin

“…•Choice of marketing channels varies by farmer and location characteristics.•Poor transport and communication networks restrict farmers’ market access.•Lack of…”
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Effectiveness of Farmers’ Risk Management Strategies in Smallholder Agriculture: Evidence from India by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…Smallholder farmers in developing countries are more vulnerable to climate risks, and most of them, because of a lack of access to institutional risk…”
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Diversification in Indian agriculture towards high value crops: Multilevel determinants and policy implications by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…•This paper partitions the variation in area share of high value crops at different geographical levels to assess their contextual effects over and above the…”
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Assessing benefits of crop insurance vis-a-vis irrigation in Indian agriculture by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S., Mishra, Ashok K.

“…•Assess the impact of crop insurance vis-à-vis irrigation on farm income.•Use nationally representative farm survey data and the MESR technique.•Farmers'…”
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A multilevel analysis of drought risk in Indian agriculture: implications for managing risk at different geographical levels by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S.

“…Drought is an important downside risk in Indian agriculture; and the spatial differences in its intensity and probability of occurrence are considerable. To…”
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Climate change and land-use in Indian agriculture by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S., Bhan, Subhash C.

“…Using spatially disaggregated district-level data from India, this study has investigated the impact of climate change, especially rising temperature, on land…”
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impacts of information on returns from farming: evidence from a nationally representative farm survey in India by Birthal, Pratap S, Kumar, Shiv, Negi, Digvijay S, Roy, Devesh

“…Using a nationally representative sample of farm households from India, this paper examines the impact of use of information on net farm incomes. Employing…”
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Formal versus informal: Efficiency, inclusiveness and financing of dairy value chains in Indian Punjab by Birthal, Pratap S., Chand, Ramesh, Joshi, P.K., Saxena, Raka, Rajkhowa, Pallavi, Khan, Md. Tajuddin, Khan, Mohd. Arshad, Chaudhary, Khyali R.

“…Using a unique set of household-level data from the Indian state of Punjab, this paper assesses the performance and financing of dairy value chains at their…”
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Is Indian agriculture becoming resilient to droughts? Evidence from rice production systems by Birthal, Pratap S., Negi, Digvijay S., Khan, Md. Tajuddin, Agarwal, Shaily

“…•The paper has examined frequency, severity and spread of droughts in India, and their impact on rice.•The droughts have become more frequent but less intense…”
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Understanding the geographic pattern of diffusion of modern crop varieties in India: a multilevel modeling approach by Kumar, Anjani, Hazrana, Jaweriah, Negi, Digvijay S., Birthal, Pratap S., Tripathi, Gaurav

“…The diffusion of agricultural technologies is influenced by a number of factors, including the farm-, household- and location-specific characteristics,…”
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Transformation and Sources of Growth in Southeast Asian Agriculture by Birthal, Pratap S., Joshi, P.K., Roy, Devesh, Pandey, Ghanshyam

“…Over the past few decades, agriculture in Southeast Asia has experienced robust growth and undergone a significant structural transformation, albeit at a…”
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Quantifying effects of climate change and farmers' information demand on wheat yield in India: a deep learning approach with regional clustering by Godara, Samarth, Birthal, Pratap S., Avinash, G., Ahmad Faiz, Mukhtar, Bana, Ram Swaroop, Jhajhria, Abimanyu, Parsad, Rajender, Marwaha, Sudeep

“…IntroductionWith increasing demand for food and changing environmental conditions, a better understanding of the factors impacting wheat yield is essential for…”
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Effect of Trade Liberalization on the Efficiency of Indian Dairy Industry by Kannan, Elumalai, Birthal, Pratap S.

“…India is the largest producer of milk, and milk is the second largest agricultural commodity after rice in terms of its contribution to agricultural gross…”
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Innovations in financing of agri-food value chains in China and India: Lessons and policies for inclusive financing by Chen, Kevin Z, Joshi, Pramod K, Cheng, Enjiang, Birthal, Pratap S

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Farmers' Preference for Farming: Evidence From a Nationally Representative Farm Survey in India by Birthal, Pratap S., Roy, Devesh, Khan, Md. Tajuddin, Negi, Digvijay Singh

“…Using data from a nationally representative farm survey in India, we have analyzed Indian farmers' stated preference for farming as a profession. Findings show…”
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Agriculture, economic growth and regional disparities in India by Birthal, Pratap S., Singh, Harvinder, Kumar, Shiv

“…This paper investigates the process of convergence and catching‐up among major Indian states during 1980/81–2004/05—a period of economic liberalisation and…”
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Crop diversification and resilience of agriculture to climatic shocks: Evidence from India by Birthal, Pratap S., Hazrana, Jaweriah

“…Indian agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate shocks, such as floods, droughts and heat-stress. In this paper, using a dynamic panel-data approach we have…”
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Environmental value of dung in mixed crop-livestock systems by Dikshit, A.K, Pratap S Birthal

“…Dung is an important byproduct of livestock. It is used as manure, or is converted into dung cakes for use as fuel or mixed with clay for flooring and…”
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