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Crop Diversification: Pattern, Determinants and its Impact on Nutritional Security in India

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Title Crop Diversification: Pattern, Determinants and its Impact on Nutritional Security in India
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Creator Anuja A.R.
Rajesh T
Harish Kumar H.V.
Mrinmoy Ray
 
Subject crop diversification
nutritional security
 
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Crop diversification is important in the nutritional point of view. Better income prospects
and higher marketable surplus can supplement the consumption of nutritious food in terms of
variety as well as quantity. Earlier literature suggests the direct effect of crop diversification on
food availability and nutrition. In India, diversifying towards coarse cereals improves nutritional
supply, climate resilience and resource use efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions
without compromising calorie production. Diverse production systems focusing on horticultural
crops add to food security and reduce anemia. Consumption of a well-balanced and diversified
diet is a sustainable strategy to check problems associated with malnutrition. With this
background, this study examined the status of crop diversification in India and its determinants,
and impact of crop diversification on the district wise nutritional status in India.
We used the Simpson Index of diversification (Sd) as an indicator of crop diversification.
We found that the area share of food crops is declining in the central, western, and southern
regions while the area share is increasing in the northern and eastern regions. The area share of
cereals and millets is declining in all regions except northern region and eastern region for the
past decade and a half. The area share of pulse crops is increasing in the western and southern
regions. The share of high-value crops such as fruits and vegetables has also increased in all the
regions during the study period. We estimated the extent of crop diversification at the
regional/state level for food crops, non-food crops and the whole crop sector. Also, we analyzed
the relationship between crop diversification and nutritional status at the district level using
simulation study employing bivariate copula function. We used indicators of child and adult
nutrition status and compared the relative performance of districts in their nutritional outcomes
using the undernutrition index as a proxy. Using hierarchical clustering, we grouped states and
districts based on the index values. Results of the simulation study using bivariate copula
function indicated a dominant influence of crop diversification on reducing undernutrition in
India. Overall, the varying extent of crop diversification across regions implies that region specific interventions are necessary to promote the crop diversification
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Date 2022-06-27T05:30:13Z
2022-06-27T05:30:13Z
2021-07-01
 
Type Project Report
 
Identifier Anuja A R, Rajesh T, Harish Kumar H V and Mrinmoy Ray(2021).Crop Diversification: Pattern, Determinants and its Impact on Nutritional Security in India. Project Report. I.A.S.R.I./P.R. – 07/2021.ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute Library Avenue, PUSA, New Delhi – 110 012
I.A.S.R.I./P.R. – 07/2021
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/73479
 
Language English
 
Relation I.A.S.R.I./P.R. – 07/2021;
 
Publisher ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute