Dynamics of crop category choices reveal strategies and tactics used by smallholder farmers in India to cope with unreliable water availability

Mariem Baccar, Hélène Raynal, Muddu Sekhar, Jacques-Eric Bergez, Magali Willaume, Pierre Casel, P. Giriraj, Sanjeeva Murthy and Laurent Ruiz

Agricultural Systems, 2023, vol. 211, issue C

Abstract: Changing cropping pattern is a potentially effective lever to cope with unreliable water resources, but given the multiple factors driving crop choices, assessing if farmers actually use it specifically for this objective remains difficult.

Keywords: Sequence analysis; Groundwater irrigation; Cropping pattern; Crop choice; Crop diversity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103744

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