Systems approach for analyzing tradeoffs between income, risk and water use in rice-wheat production in northern India

Field Crops Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 147-161

  Selvarajan, S ^a,b   Aggarwal, P K ^b,c   Pandey, S ^c   Lansigan, F P ^c   Bandyopadhyay, S K ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY RESEARCH   (India)

^b INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Economic tradeoff; Income risk; Optimization; Rice wheat rotation; Risk efficient farming; Risk programming; Simulation; Water use

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030925961     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4290(96)01045-3     Document Type: Article

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