Avinash Kishore

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a discrete choice experiment with 666 farmers from the Palghar and Thane districts of Maharashtra to measure their willingness to pay for drum seeders, a key piece of equipment for adopting DSR.

Abstract: This chapter analyzes research and capacity gaps in policies, institutions and markets in Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain (Eastern IGP), including the states of Bihar and West Bengal in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. The analysis is based on a review of existing policies, institutional framework and farmers group discussion (FGD) from selected villages in identified districts located across the Eastern IGP. A review of the existing policies and institutions indicated that a good number of required policies and institutional framework were in place, but the informal transaction cost of availing benefits of those policies by the smallholders from formal channels (banks, government departments, insurance companies, etc.) was very high. This reflected poorly on the level of governance, as the global percentile ranking of Eastern IGP states in respect of governance was in the range of 15–45%. Therefore, major reforms are required for promoting equitable access to technology and financial services; public resources management (reducing leakages) and addressing gender issues.

TL;DR: In this article, the Indian government has introduced several schemes and programs to promote agricultural mechanization in the country, including direct benefit transfer (DBT) for all agricultural inputs, including farm implements.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors assess the performance of solar-powered community lift irrigation systems using data collected from 297 farmers in the command area of 50 randomly selected irrigation systems and interviewed 457 non-beneficiaries.