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Vinay Kumar Sonkar
Researcher at International Food Policy Research Institute
Publications - 14
Citations - 86
Vinay Kumar Sonkar is an academic researcher from International Food Policy Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Food safety & Population. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 13 publications receiving 51 citations.
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Access to Credit and Economic Well-Being of Rural Households: Evidence from Eastern India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the impact of access to credit on rural households' per capita annual income using an endogenous switching regression approach, an increasingly popular method of tackling the selection bias issue in impact analyses.
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Food safety measures and food security of smallholder dairy farmers: Empirical evidence from Bihar, India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of adoption of food safety measures (FSMs) on milk yield and profitability of smallholder dairy farms in India's Bihar state and found that herd size and experience in dairy farming have a significant effect on the number of FSMs smallholders adopt.
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Peer Effects in the Valuation of Attributes and Practices for Food Safety: Findings from the Study of Dairy Consumers in India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present evidence of peer effects in consumers' attitudes toward various food safety attributes as well as food safety practices, which is based on exploiting within consumer variation across different aspects of attitude (or practices) related to food safety.
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Are farmer producer organizations a boon to farmers? The evidence from Bihar, India.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of membership of farmers in farmer producer organizations on the adoption of technologies and Good Agricultural Practices (GA) and found that poor access to capital and the absence of a proper monitoring and evaluation mechanism are among the most important challenges.
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Determinants of access to and intensity of formal credit: evidence from a survey of rural households in eastern India
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the correlates of choice of source of credit and amount of institutional finance from survey of rural households in eastern India, and find that as much as 52% of households lack access to any type of loan and the credit borrowed per household is Rs. 69, 477, which is two-thirds of the national average of Rs. 103, 457.