Hybrid crops, income, and food security of smallholder families: Empirical evidence from poor states of India

Amarnath Tripathi, Sucheta Sardar and Hari Shankar Shyam

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2023, vol. 191, issue C

Abstract: This study investigates the impact of adopting hybrid crops (rice and maize) on smallholder farm households' income and food security in two of India's poorest states (Bihar and Uttar Pradesh). We use two-stage endogenous treatment regression and farm household data from a survey by the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia during 2010–11. Findings suggest that adopting hybrid crops significantly increases smallholders' household income. Hybrid technology adoption also significantly increases smallholder households' food security. However, our findings indicate that the impact on income and food security is much higher for adopters of hybrid maize than for adopters of hybrid rice. These results show that hybrid crops enhance the welfare of smallholder farm families.

Keywords: Hybrid crops; Technology adoption; Treatment effects; Food security; Household income; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I30 O13 Q12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122532

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