Environment and Changing Agricultural Practices: Evidence from Orissa, India

Jyotirmayee Kar and Mahamaya Kar
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Mahamaya Kar: New Stewart School, Cuttack, India

Indus Journal of Management & Social Science (IJMSS), 2008, vol. 2, issue 2, 119-128

Abstract: In this paper attempt is made to examine vulnerability of farm households’ to adverse consequences of climate variables and extreme conditions like: food and cyclone. Three key components impeding food security with in the substance production structure are identified as (i) Inadequate food production by farm households. (ii). Distribution and marketing constrains and (iii) Low households’ income & procurement. Sampled data was used in the Cobb-Douglass function. This model and its results reveal that agriculture is largely dependent upon input prices, prices of livestock, and that of fertilizers. Highly significant response of farms’ income to precipitation reveals that investment in irrigation would improve farms’ income.

Keywords: Environment; Vulnerability of Households; Changing Climate; Agriculture Production and Income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 C52 C67 J21 J30 O12 O13 O15 O18 R14 R15 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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