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Quantifying Economic Impact of Climate Change on Rice in Semiarid Tropics of India: using Ricardian Approach for the State of Andhra Pradesh

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Title Quantifying Economic Impact of Climate Change on Rice in Semiarid Tropics of India: using Ricardian Approach for the State of Andhra Pradesh
 
Creator Singh, N P
Byjesh, K.
Ranganathan, C R
Bantilan, M C S
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description This paper analyzes the economic impact of climate change on agriculture for
the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The objective of this study is to quantify the
impact of climate change on net revenue from rice crop in the 20 districts of the
state. The Ricardian approach has been used to analyze the effects of climate
variables on the net income from Rice. Panel datasets on climatic, agronomic
and socio-economic variables were used for this analysis. The results showed
that there exists significant nonlinear impact of temperature and rainfall on
yield over the years on the net income from rice. On an average in rice; 10C rise
in temperature will reduce the net income by109 INR (2.42US$) per hectare in
these districts and the impact of precipitation are not substantial. Among
districts taken into account, Anantpur face the maximum brunt of the impact of
climate change. As expected, rainfall had positive marginal impacts, however it
is very negligible. The socio-economic variable i.e. amount of irrigated area,
literacy rate of rural population also shows significant positive effects on the
income.
 
Publisher Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP)
 
Date 2013
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7544/1/APJED_20_41-55_2013.pdf
Singh, N P and Byjesh, K. and Ranganathan, C R and Bantilan, M C S (2013) Quantifying Economic Impact of Climate Change on Rice in Semiarid Tropics of India: using Ricardian Approach for the State of Andhra Pradesh. Asia Pacific Journal on Environment and Development, 20. pp. 41-55.