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Agricultural Mechanization and Gender Influence: A Case Study on the Adoption of Machine Harvestable Chickpeas in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India

dc.contributor.authorLi, Jialu
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-09T20:21:20Z
dc.date.available2023-05-09T20:21:20Z
dc.date.issued2023-05
dc.description.abstractThe first machine-harvestable chickpea variety, NBeG47, was released in Andhra Pradesh, India in 2015 to reduce on-farm labor burden from manual harvesting and maintain sufficient protein supply. This paper uses logistic regression to study factors associated with households adopting machine-harvestable chickpeas, and OLS regression to study the association of adopting machine-harvestable chickpeas with reducing female on-farm working time, and household and female dietary quality in rural India. We found that factors including household composition and family labor availability are statistically significantly correlated with the probability of households adopting machine-harvestable chickpeas. We also discover that adopting machine-harvestable chickpeas does significantly associate with releasing female labor on farms, while no evidence shows its correlation with the change in household/female dietary diversity status. To further promote the adoption of machine-harvestable chickpeas in rural India, it is essential for policymakers and local communities to cooperate together to facilitate multi-field innovations to ensure the smooth chickpea variety transformation process.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/65yk-8243
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/113126
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectMachine-harvestable chickpeasen_US
dc.subjectfemale labor
dc.subjectdietary quality
dc.subjectIndia
dc.titleAgricultural Mechanization and Gender Influence: A Case Study on the Adoption of Machine Harvestable Chickpeas in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, Indiaen_US
dc.typedissertation or thesisen_US
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