The evolution of tractorization in India’s low-wage economy: Key patterns and implications

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierPramod Kumar Joshi: 0000-0002-9637-1767
cg.creator.identifierHiroyuki Takeshima: 0000-0002-1761-408X
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - South Asia Office
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number1675
cg.placeWashington, DC
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
dc.contributor.authorBhattarai, Madhusudan
dc.contributor.authorJoshi, Pramod Kumar
dc.contributor.authorShekhawa, R. S.
dc.contributor.authorTakeshima, Hiroyuki
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:24:39Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:24:39Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148425
dc.titleThe evolution of tractorization in India’s low-wage economy: Key patterns and implicationsen
dcterms.abstractThis study reviews the evolution of tractor use in India in the past few decades, and supplements this with a panel model analysis using factors associated with state-level tractor density growth. Growth in tractor use in India, unlike that in the United States and Japan, has occurred at relatively low wage rates and with a substantial majority of the workforce remaining in the agricultural sector. Considerable growth in domestic manufacturing has contributed to growth in tractor densities. Tractor density across the 14 major states in India between 1982 and 2012 was positively affected by income per capita, cropping intensity, and the average size of farmland holdings. Tractor intensity grew at a fast pace even in low-wage regions of India, indicating that relatively lower labor wages might not have been a binding factor for diffusion of farm machinery and tractors among smallholding farmers in India.en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBhattarai, Madhusudan; Joshi, Pramod Kumar; Shekhawa, R. S.; and Takeshima, Hiroyuki. 2017. The evolution of tractorization in India’s low-wage economy: Key patterns and implications. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1675. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148425en
dcterms.extent40 pages
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2017
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147535en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148091en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/131410
dcterms.subjecttractorsen
dcterms.subjectdata analysisen
dcterms.subjectfarm incomeen
dcterms.subjectfarm equipmenten
dcterms.subjectagricultural mechanizationen
dcterms.subjectfarm machinery policiesen
dcterms.subjectremunerationen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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