Rajkhowa, P and Chakrabarti, S. (2024).Temperature and children's dietary diversity: Evidence from India. Food Policy. (Link)
Rajkhowa, P. (2024). From subsistence to market-oriented farming: The role of groundwater irrigation in smallholder agriculture in eastern India. Food Security.(Link)
Rajkhowa,P., and Baumüller, H. (2024). Assessing the potential of ICTs to increase land and labor productivity in agriculture: Global and regional perspectives. Journal of Agricultural Economics.(Link)
Rajkhowa,P., and Kornher, L. (2023). Effects of electronic markets on prices, spikes in prices, and price dispersion: A case study of the tea market in India. Agribusiness. (Link)
Rajkhowa, P., and Qaim, M. (2022). Mobile phones, women’s physical mobility, and contraceptive use in India. Social Science & Medicine. (Link)
Rajkhowa, P., and Kornher, L. (2022). COVID-19 and distortions in urban food market in India. Indian Economic Review. (Link)
Rajkhowa, P., and Qaim, M. (2022). Mobile phones, off-farm employment, and household income in rural India. Journal of Agricultural Economics. (Link)
Rajkhowa, P., and Qaim, M. (2021). Personalized digital extension services and agricultural performance: Evidence from smallholder farmers in India. PLoS ONE .(Link)
Rajkhowa, P., and Kubik, Z. (2021). Revisiting the relationship between farm mechanization and labour requirement in India. Indian Economic Review. (Link)
Birthal, P. S., Chand, R., Joshi, P. K., Saxena, R., Rajkhowa, P., Khan, M. T., Khan, M. A., & Chaudhary, K. R. (2017). Formal versus informal: Efficiency, inclusiveness, and financing of dairy value chains in Indian Punjab. Journal of Rural Studies. (Link)
Chakrabarti, S., and Rajkhowa, P. (2015). What is the cost of providing one rupee of support to the poor? Economic and Political Weekly. (Link)
Effects of market proximity on the profitability of farmer collectives - evidence from India (with Mathew Abraham, Andaleeb Rahman, and Prabhu Pingali)
Abstract: There is a growing interest in fostering farmer producer organizations (FPOs) to tackle the challenges of smallholder farming systems in low and middle-income countries. FPOs offer opportunities for achieving economies of scale and enhanced bargaining power for the farmers in the agricultural markets thereby overcoming the commonly understood challenges of ensuring remunerative returns from agriculture for individual farmers. In this paper, we show that while this collectivization offers promise, the sustainability of FPOs as business entities, similar to that of individual farmers, is also influenced by their proximity to agricultural markets and other value chain services. We construct a unique dataset that includes all farmer-producer organizations (FPOs) in India with available financial data, along with disaggregated geospatial information on their locations and market proximities. Using an instrumental variable (IV) approach, we show that each additional kilometer from a town with a population of 5,000 to 10,000 results in an annual decrease of approximately Rs 890 per FPO shareholder (equivalent to roughly 10 USD per shareholder). These results underscore the economic implications of geographical distance and market access on the financial well-being of FPOs and emphasize the significance of organizational design and policy support in mitigating transaction costs and geographical disadvantages for FPOs.
Work in progress
Advancing climate resiliency in agriculture systems.
Environmental shocks and food price volatility.
Agricultural futures markets in India.
Gulati, A., Rajkhowa, P., Roy, R., and Sharma, P. Performance of Agriculture in Madhya Pradesh. In: Gulati A., Roy R., Saini S. (eds) Revitalizing Indian Agriculture and Boosting Farmer Incomes. India Studies in Business and Economics. Springer. (Link)
Hoda A., Gulati A., Jose S., and Rajkhowa P. (2021) Sources and Drivers of Agricultural Growth in Bihar. In: Gulati A., Roy R., Saini S. (eds) Revitalizing Indian Agriculture and Boosting Farmer Incomes. India Studies in Business and Economics. Springer. (Link)
Hoda A., Gulati A., Wardhan H., and Rajkhowa P. (2021) Drivers of Agricultural Growth in Odisha. In: Gulati A., Roy R., Saini S. (eds) Revitalizing Indian Agriculture and Boosting Farmer Incomes. India Studies in Business and Economics. Springer. (Link)
Birthal, P. S., Chand, R., Joshi, P. K., Saxena, R., Rajkhowa, P., Khan, M. T., Khan, M. A., and Chaudhary, K. R. (2017). Formal versus informal: Efficiency, inclusiveness, and financing of dairy value chains in Indian Punjab. In: Mani G., Joshi P., Ashok M. (eds) Financing Agriculture Value Chains in India. India Studies in Business and Economics. Springer. (Link)
Leslie Verteramo Chiu and Pallavi Rajkhowa (2023). How soybean FPOs can use futures contracts to manage risk (Link).
Pallavi Rajkhowa and Leslie Verteramo Chiu (2023). Soybean value chains and market efficiency: Lessons from a field visit to FPOs in Latur (Link)
Pallavi Rajkhowa. (2021). Using personalized digital extension services to improve agriculture performance. In Rural21 (Link)
Ashok Gulati and Pallavi Rajkhowa (2016). From plate to plough: Some Punjab lessons for Odisha. In Indian Express. (Link)
Making Rapid Strides-Agriculture in Madhya Pradesh-Sources, Drivers and Policy Lessons (with Ashok Gulati and Pravesh Sharma) (Link)
Unleashing Bihar's agriculture potential: Sources and drivers of agriculture growth (with Anwarul Hoda and Ashok Gulati) (Link)
Transforming agriculture in Odisha: Sources and drivers of agriculture growth (with Anwarul Hoda and Ashok Gulati) (Link)