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Impacts of soil and water conservation measures on farm technical efficiency in the semi-arid tropics of central India

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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/environmental-conservation/article/impacts-of-soil-and-water-conservation-measures-on-farm-technical-efficiency-in-the-semiarid-tropics-of-central-india/58FB45012F1C7D0367AAFD5C49E9097F
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892924000146
 
Title Impacts of soil and water conservation measures on farm technical efficiency in the semi-arid tropics of central India
 
Creator Singh, Priyanka
Choudhary, B B
Sharma, Purushottam
Kumar, Sunil
Dev, I
Singh, R
Garg, K K
Chand, K
Ram, A
Kumar, N
Arunachalam, A
 
Subject Soil Science
India
Water Conservation
 
Description Natural resources such as soil and water are essential to agriculture, especially in arid and semi-arid rain-fed areas, yet the impacts of managing these crucial natural resources on farm technical efficiency are little known. Using data from 400 households with 1031 plots, we examined the impacts of soil and water conservation measures (SWCMs) on the technical efficiency of farmers in the semi-arid Bundelkhand (central India). We estimated stochastic production frontiers, considering potential self-selection bias stemming from both observable and unobservable factors in the adoption of SWCMs at the farm level. The farm technical efficiency for adopters of SWCMs ranged from 0.68 to 0.72, and that for non-adopters ranged from 0.52 to 0.65, depending on how biases were controlled for. As the average efficiency is consistently higher for adopter farmers than the control group, promoting SWCMs could help to increase input use efficiency, especially in resource-deprived rain-fed systems in the semi-arid tropics.
 
Publisher Cambridge University Press
 
Date 2024-05-30
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Rights cc_by_nc_nd
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/12832/1/Environmental%20Conservation_1-8_2024.pdf
Singh, Priyanka and Choudhary, B B and Sharma, Purushottam and Kumar, Sunil and Dev, I and Singh, R and Garg, K K and Chand, K and Ram, A and Kumar, N and Arunachalam, A (2024) Impacts of soil and water conservation measures on farm technical efficiency in the semi-arid tropics of central India. Environmental Conservation. pp. 1-8. ISSN 0376-8929