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Flood, cropping pattern choice and returns in agriculture: A study of Assam plains, India

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The agriculture sector of Assam, a state in the northeast part of India, supports more than 75% of its population. Agriculture in Assam is highly susceptible to flood risk, not only through reduced time availability for cropping but also through higher production risks due to varying flood timing, frequency and intensity. Farmers however have few institutional safeguards to hedge that risk. This paper explores the role of crop diversification as a means for the farmers in the flood plains of Assam to cope with flood induced production risks and limits. An application of a generalized linear model to original farm level survey data reveals that farmers in the plains of Assam who are confronted with greater flood risk tend to diversify their cropping pattern more. This diversification is also shown to be a strategy that extracts higher returns from farming.

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  • Raju Mandal, 2014. "Flood, cropping pattern choice and returns in agriculture: A study of Assam plains, India," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 44(3), pages 333-344.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecanpo:v:44:y:2014:i:3:p:333-344
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    1. Raghu, Prabhakaran T & Das, Sukanya & Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan, 2021. "Smallholder Adaptation to Flood Risks: Adoption and Impact of Swarna-Sub1 in Eastern India," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315867, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    2. Aditi Bhattacharyya & Raju Mandal, 2016. "A Generalized Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis of Technical Efficiency of Rice Farming: A Case Study from Assam, India," Working Papers 1603, Sam Houston State University, Department of Economics and International Business.
    3. Bijay Halder & Subhadip Barman & Papiya Banik & Puja Das & Jatisankar Bandyopadhyay & Fredolin Tangang & Shamsuddin Shahid & Chaitanya B. Pande & Baqer Al-Ramadan & Zaher Mundher Yaseen, 2023. "Large-Scale Flood Hazard Monitoring and Impact Assessment on Landscape: Representative Case Study in India," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-17, July.
    4. Ujjal Deka Baruah & Anup Saikia & Scott M. Robeson & Nitashree Mili & Pritam Chand, 2021. "Perceptions and adaptation behavior of farmers to climate change in the upper Brahmaputra Valley, India," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(10), pages 15529-15549, October.
    5. Tugkan Tanir & Andre de Souza de Lima & Gustavo A. Coelho & Sukru Uzun & Felicio Cassalho & Celso M. Ferreira, 2021. "Assessing the spatiotemporal socioeconomic flood vulnerability of agricultural communities in the Potomac River Watershed," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 108(1), pages 225-251, August.
    6. Nath, Hiranya K. & Mandal, Raju, 2018. "Heterogeneous Climatic Impacts on Agricultural Production: Evidence from Rice Yield in Assam, India," Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), vol. 15(1), June.

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