Pathways and determinants of sustainable energy use for rice farms in India

dc.creatorNayak, H.
dc.creatorParihar, C.M.
dc.creatorAravindakshan, S.
dc.creatorSilva, J.V.
dc.creatorKrupnik, T.J.
dc.creatorMcdonald, A.
dc.creatorKakraliya Suresh Kumar
dc.creatorSena, D.R.
dc.creatorKumar, V.
dc.creatorSherpa, S.R.
dc.creatorBijarniya, D.
dc.creatorSingh, L.K.
dc.creatorKumar, M.
dc.creatorChoudhary, K.M.
dc.creatorKumar, S.
dc.creatorKumar, Y.
dc.creatorJat, H.S.
dc.creatorSidhu, H.S.
dc.creatorJat, M.L.
dc.creatorSapkota, T.B.
dc.date2023-03-31T20:30:13Z
dc.date2023-03-31T20:30:13Z
dc.date2023
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-17T20:10:30Z
dc.date.available2023-07-17T20:10:30Z
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10883/22561
dc.identifier10.1016/j.energy.2023.126986
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/7514304
dc.descriptionRice cultivation in the Northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of India is often associated with high energy use, calling into question its sustainability. We applied a bootstrapped meta-frontier with a truncated regression to a database of 3,832 rice farms from the input-intensive rice production tracts of the Northwestern IGP as part of an assessment of energy use efficiency aimed at identifying entrypoints for more sustainable and efficient practices. District-specific technical efficiency score ranged between 0.68 and 0.99, with a mean of 0.86–0.90, suggesting an average potential for improvement in energy use efficiency of 10–14% within each district. Observed mean meta-frontier technical efficiency scores ranged between 0.60 and 0.81. On average, energy use efficient farms had 42% or higher energy use efficiency in the districts of Ambala, Fatehgarh Sahib, and Karnal. In contrast, in other districts efficient farms had 5-19% higher energy use efficiency than the inefficient farms. Higher rates of tillage, irrigation, and fertilizer application were identified among inefficient farms, with patterns of energy use efficiency varying to some extent between study districts. Both efficient and inefficient farms in Kapurthala and Ludhiana exhibited similar patterns of energy for tillage and land preparation, whereas the energy output from both efficient and inefficient farms were similar in Kurukshetra. These data suggest that in order to improve the efficiency of energy use in rice farms in the Northwestern IGP, district-level policy interventions and incentives might be required. The methodological approach and evidence provided in this study may be of use to identify pathways toward sustainable energy use in other intensively managed rice production landscapes in other countries. Similar analyses that employ meta-frontier and truncated regression approaches can be carried out for other performance indicators, for example profitability and carbon footprints, to explore and identify management and policy interventions to assist farmers to more appropriately utilize scarce and costly resources.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relationhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544223003808?via%3Dihub#appsec1
dc.relationClimate adaptation & mitigation
dc.relationEnvironmental health & biodiversity
dc.relationPoverty reduction, livelihoods & jobs
dc.relationNutrition, health & food security
dc.relationTransforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia
dc.relationLow-Emission Food Systems Initiative
dc.relationResilient Agrifood Systems
dc.relationSystems Transformation
dc.relationCGIAR
dc.relationUnited States Agency for International Development
dc.relationBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/129714
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dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.source272
dc.source0360-5442
dc.sourceEnergy
dc.source126986
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectBig Data
dc.subjectPolicy Planning
dc.subjectTruncated Regression
dc.subjectEnergy Use Efficiency
dc.subjectDATA
dc.subjectPOLICIES
dc.subjectREGRESSION ANALYSIS
dc.subjectENERGY CONSUMPTION
dc.subjectDATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS
dc.subjectSustainable Agrifood Systems
dc.titlePathways and determinants of sustainable energy use for rice farms in India
dc.typeArticle
dc.typePublished Version
dc.coverageIndia
dc.coverageUnited Kingdom


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