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Economic Assessment of Soil Erosion Damage on Smallholder Farms in Marginal Lands of Mahi Ravines in Gujarat

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Title Economic Assessment of Soil Erosion Damage on Smallholder Farms in Marginal Lands of Mahi Ravines in Gujarat
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Creator V.C. Pande
R.S. Kurothe
H.B. Singh,
S.P. Tiwari,
Gopal Kumar
B.K. Rao,
A.K. Vishwakarma
G.L. Bagdi
 
Subject Economic assessment, soil erosion damage, smallholders, marginal lands, Mahi ravines
 
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Economic damage due to soil erosion has been assessed for a scenario representing the agricultural
practice followed on a typical smallholder farm adjacent to ravines. Using on-farm trial data from a
research farm in the Mahi ravines, yield-erosion relationship has been estimated and erosion damage
function has been developed with local output and input prices realized by smallholder farmers. Pearl
millet + pigeon pea being the most prominent cropping systems on smallholder farms in the Mahi ravines,
has been taken for study. Farmers’ existing erosive practice has been compared with a conservation
practice, viz. ridge and furrow technique (RFT). According to the study, a decline in yield to the extent of
50 per cent and 75 per cent will take much longer period in the case of conservative practice than in
erosive practice. The paper has also studied farmer’s decision on switching over to conservation practice
from the existing erosive practice. The analysis has revealed the switching over decision year to be
insensitive to discount rate, and little sensitive to output price, suggesting thereby that these policy variables
would have little effect. The paper has suggested that favourable input-output price scenario and initial
support of the state would help in incentivizing the farmers to switching over to conservative practice.
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Date 2020-03-05T08:44:56Z
2020-03-05T08:44:56Z
2013-06-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/33608
 
Language English
 
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