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Ranjit Kumar
Researcher at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
Publications - 63
Citations - 615
Ranjit Kumar is an academic researcher from International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 61 publications receiving 455 citations. Previous affiliations of Ranjit Kumar include National Academy of Agricultural Research Management.
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Adoption of Integrated Pest Management Practices in Paddy and Cotton: A Case Study in Haryana and Punjab
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the adoption of IPM practices on cotton in Punjab and on paddy in Haryana and assessed the impact of key socio-economic and institutional factors on IPM adoption.
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Arsenic exposure from food exceeds that from drinking water in endemic area of Bihar, India.
Debapriya Mondal,Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman,S. Suman,Pushpa Kumari Sharma,Abu Bakkar Siddique,Md. Aminur Rahman,A.S.M. Fazle Bari,Ranjit Kumar,N. Bose,Shatrunjay Kumar Singh,Ashok Ghosh,David A. Polya +11 more
TL;DR: Food was found to contribute more than drinking water to As exposure, even when drinking water As was above the WHO provisional guide value of 10 μg/L, which is timely to stress the importance of removing As from the food chain and not just drinking water in endemic areas.
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Linking Food Security with Household’s Adaptive Capacity and Drought Risk: Implications for Sustainable Rural Development
Anu Susan Sam,Azhar Abbas,Subash Surendran Padmaja,Harald Kaechele,Ranjit Kumar,Ranjit Kumar,Klaus Müller +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the food security of drought prone rural households in a broader context by linking the dimensions of food security with dimensions of climate change vulnerability, and employed polychoric principal component analysis to construct an aggregate food security index.
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Vulnerabilities to flood hazards among rural households in India
TL;DR: In this article, the vulnerability of rural households affected by floods in India is analyzed using the Livelihood Vulnerability Index and the Socioeconomic Vulnerability index, and the results show that these households are vulnerable to flood in more than one dimension, such as low literacy rate, high dependency ratio and a weak housing structure.
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Wheat is an emerging exposure route for arsenic in Bihar, India
S. Suman,Pushpa Kumari Sharma,Abu Bakkar Siddique,Md. Aminur Rahman,Ranjit Kumar,Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman,N. Bose,Shatrunjay Kumar Singh,Ashok Ghosh,Helen Matthews,Debapriya Mondal +10 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest As exposure from wheat-based food intake to be of concern not only in As endemic areas of rural Bihar but also in non-endemic areas with similar wheat- based diet due to public distribution of the wheat across India.