TY  - JA
AU  - Paudel,G.P.
AU  - Chamberlin,J.
AU  - Trung Thanh Nguyen
TI  - Productivity and welfare impacts of sustainable intensification in rice-wheat crop rotations : : Evidence from the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains
SN  - 1364-985X
PY  - 2025///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - John Wiley & Sons Australia, 
KW  - Rice
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Profitability
KW  - Sustainable intensification
KW  - Technology adoption
KW  - Zero tillage
KW  - Wheat
KW  - South Asia
N1  - Peer review; Open Access
N2  - Sustainable intensification (SI) has been receiving policy attention for its potential to transform agri-food systems and improve rural livelihoods. However, little is known about how SI technology bundles influence system productivity, profitability and household welfare in the coupled rice-wheat crop rotations of the Indo-Gangetic Plains in South Asia. We investigate the combined impacts of direct seeded rice (mDSR) and zero-tillage (ZT) wheat on system productivity, profitability and household welfare in the rice-wheat system of Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. Using a multinomial endogenous switching regression model to address selection bias, we find that the joint adoption of mDSR and ZT wheat significantly improves cropping system productivity by 19% (1148 kg per hectare), reduces production costs by 18% (US$ 159 per hectare), increases farm profits by 84% (US$ 502 per hectare) and raises household per capita income by 56%. However, these benefits are unevenly distributed, with poorer farms benefitting less from rice-wheat farming and more from off-farm income compared to richer farms. Our findings underscore the need for policy support to promote broader SI adoption and emphasise the importance of fostering off-farm jobs for equitable development
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10883/35927
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.70050
T2  - Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
ER  -