NDLI: Land Shaping Models for Enhancing Agricultural Productivity in Salt Affected Coastal Areas of West Bengal

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Author	Mandal, Subhasis Sarangi, S.K. Burman, D. Bandyopadhyay, B.K. Maji, B. Mandal, U.K. Sharma, D.K.
Abstract	The management of agricultural land to improve farm income in coastal saline areas is quite challengingbecause, firstly, most of the agricultural area is characterised by monocropping with low-yielding ricevarieties during kharif season. Under such fragile environment sustaining the livelihoods of these resourcepoor farmers become a real challenge both for technology developers as well as policy makers. Toincrease the farm income under the coastal saline environment, strategies have been taken up to increasethe adoption of the salt resistant crop varieties and more importantly harvesting, storing and appropriatemanagement through different kinds of land shaping technologies. The study pertains to primary surveyon farm households, in South and North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. The sample farmers weredrawn from two blocks, six villages and total sample size of 180 farm households of which half were thebeneficiary farmers and the rest was non-beneficiary farmers. In the coastal area the land shapingtechnique, particularly farm pond and paddy-cum fish models, are unique technology for addressing thekey challenges like land degradation (salinity), drainage congestion and scarcity of fresh water forirrigation and in turn have the potential to enhancing production, productivity, income and employment.These techniques particularly farm pond and paddy-cum-fish are a financially viable and attractiveproposition for the coastal region. However for larger adoption of these technologies need to address somekey issues like socio-economic constraints, some of which can be addressed by research level (e.g. landconfiguration, soil quality) some other at policy level (e.g. financial incentives).
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Ending Page	401
Page Count	13
Starting Page	389
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ISSN	00195014
DOI	10.22004/ag.econ.206342
Journal	Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
Issue Number	3
Volume Number	68
Language	English
Publisher	Indian Society of Agricultural Economics
Publisher Date	2013-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Applied Economics Agricultural Economics Agri-economic Open Access Database Research in Applied Economics Research in Agricultural Economics Higher Study On Agricultural Economics Higher Study On Applied Economics Agricultural Research Documents Agrarian Economy & Research Higher Study Agri-economics Research in Economics Agri-economic Open Access Repository Statistics in Agricultural Economics Land Shaping Models, Budgeting Technique, Fisheries, Natural Resources Land Shaping Models Budgeting Technique Fisheries Natural Resources Land Economics/use
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Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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