Do farmers pay for climate-resilient technology? Evidence from bidding experiments in eastern India

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dc.creatorVarkey, Lisa Mariam
dc.creatorChellattan Veettil, Prakashan
dc.creatorPatil, Vikram
dc.date2023-04
dc.date2024-02-01T21:57:59Z
dc.date2024-02-01T21:57:59Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T04:08:27Z
dc.descriptionUsing an experimental auction, we estimate demand for stress-tolerant rice varieties (STRVs) in eastern India, where frequent covariate production risks are affecting the welfare of smallholder farmers. STRVs have the potential to cope with low- to medium-intensity abiotic stresses and stabilize rice productivity in stress-prone rice ecosystems. The experiment involves a series of farmers’ decision-makings in the context of STRV seed purchase, set in an environment with minimal social frictions and improved information availability. Survival analysis, double hurdle, and sequential logit models are employed to understand farmers’ bidding and buying behavior. The results indicate that the demand for STRVs is highly elastic and is in line with reported market behavior. Willingness to pay (WTP) estimates for initial and latent buyers are coinciding, we find evidence of strategic underbidding by latent buyers in the experiment. Information asymmetry resulting from lack of awareness and previous experience in using STRVs is found to be the major reason for such decisions. Given the high elasticity of demand, STRV seed market distortion through subsidy, price cue, and an information campaign on variety characteristics and benefits could be an effective policy mix for overcoming the constraints related to price and asymmetric information and thereby increase adoption.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138830
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/22850
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceVarkey, Lisa Mariam, Prakashan Chellattan Veettil, and Vikram Patil (2023). Do farmers pay for climate-resilient technology? Evidence from bidding experiments in eastern India. Environmental Challenges 11 (2023): 100724.
dc.subjectclimate resilience
dc.subjecttolerance
dc.subjectvarieties
dc.subjectauctions
dc.subjectabiotic stress
dc.subjectfarmers
dc.subjectexperimentation
dc.titleDo farmers pay for climate-resilient technology? Evidence from bidding experiments in eastern India
dc.typeJournal Article

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