Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey

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dc.creatorNegi, Digvijay S.
dc.creatorKumar, Anjani
dc.creatorTripathi, Gaurav
dc.creatorBirthal, Pratap Singh
dc.date2020-01-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:14:37Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:14:37Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:43:06Z
dc.descriptionIndia’s rice production has come under pressure from a number of biotic and abiotic stresses, resulting in a significant deceleration in its productivity growth in recent years. Hybrid rice technology is considered a sustainable option for boosting productivity growth. The adoption rate of hybrid rice technology, however, has remained sluggish. This paper, using data from a large-scale, nationally representative survey of farm households, identifies causes of low adoption of hybrid rice technology and subsequently assesses the impact of low adoption on crop yield. Our findings demonstrate that in India, hybrid rice is often grown on relatively poor soils, resulting in greater costs for irrigation as well as for other inputs, such as fertilizers, essential for growth. Although hybrid rice technology appears to be scale neutral, farmers’ poor access to information on its biochemical traits and agronomic practices, as well as poor access to financial resources, hampers scaling up its adoption. More important, our findings reveal that the relative yield advantage of hybrids over open-pollinated modern varieties is not large enough to incentivize rapid adoption of hybrid rice technology.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143490
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/112659
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133206
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133226
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133227
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133316
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133518
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133672
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133684
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134240
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceNegi, Digvijay S.; Kumar, Anjani; Birthal, Pratap S.; and Tripathi, Gaurav. 2020. Adoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1910. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133598.
dc.subjectimpact
dc.subjecthybrids
dc.subjecthybridization
dc.subjectrice
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjectcrop yield
dc.subjectcrop production
dc.titleAdoption and impact of hybrid rice in India: Evidence from a large-scale field survey
dc.typeWorking Paper

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