Effect of modern rice varieties and irrigation on household income distribution in Nepalese villages
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Since high-yielding modern rice varieties (MVs) are adopted only in favorable production
environments, significant regional productivity differentials have emerged in Nepal. This
study explores the distributional consequences of such differential MV adoption based on
an intensive survey of favorable and unfavorable villages. We found that MV adoption
increased returns to land but decreased family labor earnings from rice production, as it
facilitated the substitution of hired for family labor. As a result, the differential MV
adoption did not significantly worsen the household income distribution according to the
results of the counterfactual Gini decomposition analysis.