TY  - JA
AU  - Erenstein,O.
TI  - A comparative analysis of rice-wheat systems in Indian Haryana and Pakistan Punjab
SN  - 0264-8377
PY  - 2010///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Irrigated farming
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Intensive farming
KW  - Cereals
KW  - Production systems
KW  - Crop performance
KW  - Indicators
KW  - South Asia
N1  - Peer review; Peer-review: Yes - Open Access: Yes|http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=0264-8377
N2  - Intensive irrigated rice-wheat production systems have converted the north-west Indo-Gangetic Plains into South Asia's cereal basket. Their strategic importance is undermined by a slowdown in productivity growth linked to the degradation of soil and water resources. Findings from farm surveys are used to examine contrasts and similarities between rice and wheat farms, cultivation practices, productivity, and profitability in the rice-wheat belt of India's Haryana State and Pakistan's Punjab province. In Haryana average wheat and paddy yields are markedly higher, but the yield advantage is offset by higher total production costs, resulting in lower private returns. The diverging institutional environment including varying levels of intervention in produce and input markets contributed to the evolution of the Pakistani production model as relatively medium input-medium output and the Indian production model as  high input high output. The study reiterates the need to reinvigorate productivity growth and to reduce production costs in these intensive cereal production systems while conserving natural resources such as water and limiting negative environmental impacts. The study however also raises questions about the future of current rice?wheat systems
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12665/158
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.12.001
T2  - Land Use Policy
ER  -