Farm size limits agriculture's poverty reduction potential in Eastern India even with irrigation-led intensification.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Millions of people living in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) of India engage in agriculture to support their livelihoods yet are income poor, and food and climate insecure. To address these challenges, policymakers and development programs invest in irrigation-led agricultural intensification. However, the evidence for agricultural intensification to lift farmers' incomes above the poverty line remains largely anecdotal.

Objective

The main objective of this study is to use a large household survey (n = 15,572; rice: 8244, wheat: 7328; 2017/18) to assess the link between agricultural intensification and personal daily incomes from farming (FPDI) in the rice-wheat systems of the EGP - the dominant cropping system of the region.

Methods

We use the Intens

SUBMITTER: Urfels A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10114281 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature