2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Toward a Rural Poverty Reduction Strategy for Eastern India : an analysis of household panel data and an experimental introduction of environmentally-friendly rice cultivation practices.
| Project/Area Number |
19580243
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Agro-economics
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| Research Institution | Chiba University (2007-2008, 2010)
Waseda University (2009) |
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Principal Investigator |
FUWA Nobuhiko Chiba University, アジア太平洋研究科, 教授 (90302538)
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| Research Collaborator |
BANIK Pabitra Indian Statistical Institute, Agricultural Research Unit, Associate Professor
EDMONDS Christopher University of Hawaii, Assistant Professor
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2010
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| Keywords | 農村貧困 / 農業における技術革新 / 環境保全型農業 / SRI(System of Rice Intensification) / インド / 西ベンガル |
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| Research Abstract |
Despite the impressive pace of overall economic growth in recent decades in India, there are a large number of rural poor who appear to be completely left out of the fruits of the growth process of the national economy. In order to explore viable options for a poverty reduction strategy in such areas, this project set up farmers' rice plots in 15 villages in the state of West Bengal, where a package of innovative rice culture practices called SRI (System of Rice Intensification) was experimented. While we find potentials for yield increase by (at least) 30%, we have also identified some specific problems to be overcome for this technology to be widely adopted by the farmers in the region in the near future.
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