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Improving smallholder farmers’ gross margins and labor-use efficiency across a range of cropping systems in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (Record no. 62876)

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control field MX-TxCIM
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International Standard Serial Number 0305-750X
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Standard number or code https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105266
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Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gathala, M.K.
Miscellaneous information Sustainable Intensification Program
-- Sustainable Agrifood Systems
Field link and sequence number INT3262
9 (RLIN) 911
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Improving smallholder farmers’ gross margins and labor-use efficiency across a range of cropping systems in the Eastern Gangetic Plains
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford (United Kingdom) :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Elsevier,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Peer review
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia is a region of high rural poverty and low agronomic productivity, with crops grown using traditional management practices which are labor-intensive and uneconomical. Poor agronomic productivity is largely caused by unintentional, inefficient management practices which are exacerbated by labor shortages caused by increased migration away from rural areas as households require additional income from remittances. These labor shortages increase the cost of hiring labor, further contributing to low gross margins from cropping systems. The climates, soils and available water across the region indicate that, with improved management practices, this region has the potential to produce high yields for low production costs and labor requirements, ensuring high gross margins for smallholder farmers. We conducted on-farm participatory trials to compare the performance of traditional and improved conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification management practices to understand which used less labor, had lower production costs and returned higher gross margins to smallholder farmers. Our study showed that compared to traditional management practices, conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification practices reduced both labor use and total cropping system production costs by around 40% and increased gross margins by up to 25%. Trials were conducted on over 400 farms and thus our results are both statistically rigorous and representative of a range of common crop production management across the Eastern Gangetic Plains. These results show there is potential to increase livelihoods and reduce the impact of labor shortages for smallholder farmers living in diverse climatic, edaphic and social circumstances across the region. They have broader applications in labor-constrained smallholder cropping systems throughout South Asia and worldwide.
526 ## - STUDY PROGRAM INFORMATION NOTE
Program name Maize CRP
Maize Flagship Projects FP4 - Alignment with and strengthening maize seed systems for effective product delivery
526 ## - STUDY PROGRAM INFORMATION NOTE
Program name Wheat CRP
Wheat Flagship Projects FP4 - Sustainable intensification of wheat - based cropping systems
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Language note Text in English
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Conservation agriculture
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
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650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sustainable agriculture
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 2327
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Economics
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1093
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Production costs
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 4449
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
9 (RLIN) 1956
Geographic name South Asia
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Laing, A.M.
Field link and sequence number 001713882
Miscellaneous information Sustainable Agrifood Systems
9 (RLIN) 4042
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Tiwari, T.P.
Miscellaneous information Sustainable Intensification Program
-- Global Wheat Program
Field link and sequence number INT3018
9 (RLIN) 881
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 337
Personal name Timsina, J.
Field link and sequence number I1706280
Miscellaneous information Formerly Sustainable Intensification Program
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 11399
Personal name Rola-Rubzen, M.F.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 2220
Personal name Saiful Islam
Miscellaneous information Formerly Sustainable Intensification Program
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 7323
Personal name Maharjan, S.
Field link and sequence number N1706912
Miscellaneous information Sustainable Intensification Program
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 9168
Personal name Brown, P.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 4223
Personal name Das, K.K.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 4225
Personal name Pradhan, K.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 2698
Personal name Chowdhury, A.K.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 11052
Personal name Kumar, R.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 17054
Personal name Datt, R.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 17055
Personal name Anwar, M.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 11049
Personal name Hossain, S.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 9233
Personal name Kumar, U.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 17056
Personal name Adhikari, S.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 17057
Personal name Magar, D.B.T.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 17058
Personal name Sapkota, B.K.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 17059
Personal name Shrestha, H.K.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 9231
Personal name Islam, R.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 11050
Personal name Rashid, M.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
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Personal name Hossain, I.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 9230
Personal name Hossain, A.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Brown, B.
Field link and sequence number 001711450
Miscellaneous information Socioeconomics Program
-- Formerly Sustainable Agrifood Systems
9 (RLIN) 4552
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 946
Personal name Gerard, B.
Miscellaneous information Formerly Sustainable Intensification Program
Field link and sequence number INT3372
773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY
Related parts v. 138, art. 105266
Place, publisher, and date of publication Oxford (United Kingdom) : Elsevier, 2021.
International Standard Serial Number 0305-750X
Title World Development
Record control number 444788
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11/17/2020   11/17/2020 Article Not Lost Dewey Decimal Classification     CIMMYT Staff Publications Collection   CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library 11/17/2020

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