Agricultural Economics Research Review
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 33
  • Issue: confspl

Role of public intervention in conservation of paddy ecosystems in Kerala, India: An empirical evidence

  • Author:
  • Shenaz Rasheed1,, P Venkatesh1, Dharam Raj Singh1, V R Renjini1, Girish Kumar Jha1, Dinesh Kumar Sharma2
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 174 to 174

1Division of Agricultural Economics, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110 012, India

2Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110 012, India

*Corresponding author: shenazrasheed@gmail.com

Online published on 22 February, 2021.

Abstract

Cropping pattern of Kerala has witnessed a shift from paddy to cash crops as elicited from Markov chain analysis in the study. Low profitability of paddy farming in the state resulted in paddy ecosystems being converted on a large scale. The resultant twin issues of falling agricultural growth and ecological disturbance prompted Government of Kerala to enact the ‘Kerala Conservation of Paddy Land and Wetland Act’ in 2008. Structural break analysis revealed that the Act could significantly arrest reduction in paddy land area in Kerala. This reflects on the scope of public interventions in conserving important agroecosystems worldwide.