Dr. Amarender reddy
Dr. A Amarender Reddy is currently working as Joint Director, Policy Support Research, ICAR-National Institute of Biotic Stress Management (ICAR-NIBSM), Raipur, India overseeing research management in biology-economic-law interactions. He completed my Ph.D. (Agricultural Economics) from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), New Delhi. Then after, joined Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) in 2001 with first posting at ICAR-IIPR, Kanpur. From then onwards mostly engaged in research in implementation of agricultural development schemes, monitoring and evaluation of flagship schemes of the government of India in various premier institutions. He also having hands-on experience in heading the monitoring and evaluation team as Director (Monitoring and Evaluation) and development of IT systems as i/c Director ICT at National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad. Earlier worked as Associate Professor (public policy) at Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad, as Scientist (Economics) at ICRISAT, Hyderabad, as Senior Research Officer at Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD), Lucknow and also as Principal Scientist (Agricultural Economics) at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi. He also worked for a short period at Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi in evaluating government schemes to alleviate poverty. He handled large data bases on inequality, poverty and household incomes by using data sets like NSSO sample surveys by suing appropriate econometric tools for evaluation and impact of government schemes.
He published more than 100 research articles with total googlescholar citations of 2,700 and h-index of 29 and i10 index of 78. His papers appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Food Policy, Journal of Natural Resource Policy Research, Food Security, Agricultural Economics Research Review, and Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics. He was reviewer and editor in national/ international journals like Journal of Food Legumes, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Agricultural Economics Water Policy, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Research Review, World Development, Food Policy, Food Security, Journal of Decision Sciences, Cogent Social Sciences, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems etc. He is Fellow of Indian Society of Pulses Research & Development (ISPRD), Kanpur and got recognition award. Involved with high-level committees while evaluating projects of JBIC, THPC, KVIC, NIRD&PR, NABARD, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, and erstwhile Planning Commission.
Supervisors: Praduman Kumar, Probir Kumar Ghosh, PK Joshi, and Ramesh Chand
Address: Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India
He published more than 100 research articles with total googlescholar citations of 2,700 and h-index of 29 and i10 index of 78. His papers appeared in Economic and Political Weekly, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Food Policy, Journal of Natural Resource Policy Research, Food Security, Agricultural Economics Research Review, and Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics. He was reviewer and editor in national/ international journals like Journal of Food Legumes, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Agricultural Economics Water Policy, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Research Review, World Development, Food Policy, Food Security, Journal of Decision Sciences, Cogent Social Sciences, Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems etc. He is Fellow of Indian Society of Pulses Research & Development (ISPRD), Kanpur and got recognition award. Involved with high-level committees while evaluating projects of JBIC, THPC, KVIC, NIRD&PR, NABARD, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, and erstwhile Planning Commission.
Supervisors: Praduman Kumar, Probir Kumar Ghosh, PK Joshi, and Ramesh Chand
Address: Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi, India
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Objective: This study examines this intriguing domain by probing consumer perceptions, experiences, and their ability to discern authentic natural products from those containing synthetic chemicals. The study is based on both primary and secondary data.
Material & methods: Primary data is collected through structured questionnaires from a cross-section of 260 households in year 2022, and secondary data is collected from the Amazon ratings.
Result & Discussion: The results of the primary survey show that 58% of respondents said they were unsure whether the ayurvedic or herbal hair and skin care products they use contain chemical ingredients. Results of the secondary survey show that purchasing decisions are not made solely based on a product's chemical-free ingredients; other considerations also play a role.
Conclusion: Overall, higher share of five-star rating for ayurvedic products, indicates consumers are happy about the products, however, the market concentration for the ayurvedic products is high, and there is a good scope for new entrants into the market.
Objective: This study examines this intriguing domain by probing consumer perceptions, experiences, and their ability to discern authentic natural products from those containing synthetic chemicals. The study is based on both primary and secondary data.
Material & methods: Primary data is collected through structured questionnaires from a cross-section of 260 households in year 2022, and secondary data is collected from the Amazon ratings.
Result & Discussion: The results of the primary survey show that 58% of respondents said they were unsure whether the ayurvedic or herbal hair and skin care products they use contain chemical ingredients. Results of the secondary survey show that purchasing decisions are not made solely based on a product's chemical-free ingredients; other considerations also play a role.
Conclusion: Overall, higher share of five-star rating for ayurvedic products, indicates consumers are happy about the products, however, the market concentration for the ayurvedic products is high, and there is a good scope for new entrants into the market.
chickpea revolution in Andhra Pradesh and spring moong/urad in irrigated areas, expansion of area under pigeonpea in eastern India in the last decade. However, for effective upscale of these isolated
success stories, there is a need for an integrated approach through strengthening NFSM and APPP along with policy prescription to strengthen entire value chain from production, procurement and
distribution through public-private partnerships. The two policy instruments, Minimum Support Price and adjustments to tariff rates needs to be used judiciously to bridge the gap between demand
and supply, to provide proper inceptive to farmers to increase production at the same to reduce spikes in open market prices to safeguard consumers
This book is written in the background of the severe loss of chilli farmers in 2021-22 Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka. The crop loss reported was sometimes 100% with a monetary loss of more than three to five lakhs. The book examines the farmers' socio-economic status before and after this massive shock to their incomes and how government schemes helped them. India is a federal state with agriculture as a state subject hence different States follow different programmes and schemes to help farmers. The book also explores which government schemes are working well and why.
The study was conducted in 2022 for the crop year 2020-21 and 2021-22. The first year (2020-21) was a typical year with average profits in major crops in all three states, while 2021-22 was a bad year with an average crop loss of 30-35%. Especially chilli crop was damaged significantly in all three states. To understand the various adaptation and coping strategies, this book probed farmers' socio-economic conditions, crop conditions, losses, and benefits received from different schemes in both typical year and bad year from the data collected from 1440 farmers.
The study’s major findings were that, although the government was helping farmers in many different ways, all these schemes were not responding to natural calamities like droughts, pests, and disease losses. Farmers' incomes decreased significantly during the bad year (2021-22) when compared to a typical year (2020-21), leading to increased indebtedness among farmers. No other government or private schemes were working to alleviate distress during the bad year except crop insurance schemes like PMFBY and YSR-free crop insurance which also faced several hurdles. Some of the significant challenges in implementing crop insurance schemes in general and PMFBY were discussed in depth. There was some incoherence in different government schemes. It was observed that, although many schemes were working at the village level to help farmers, awareness was less, which was the main reason for low participation rates by people experiencing poverty. On the part of the government, many schemes were just on paper, and there was a lack of pool-proof mechanisms in implementation. To address these challenges, the government needs to improve the implementation of different ongoing schemes by increasing awareness among farmers, simplifying the procedures, and reducing paperwork.
Finally, the authors developed a forewarning system based on the Farmers Distress Index (FDI), which comprises seven pillars of distress, namely exposure to risks like droughts, and floods; the adaptive capacity of farmers and local governments; sensitivity; mitigation and adaptation strategies like growing of contingency crops in case of main crop failure; triggers for immediate distress like massive health-related expenditure; socio-psychological factors, and impacts. With the formal adoption of the Farmers Distress Index (FDI), governments can identify locations/areas and farmers with severe farmers distress where government intervention is required. The probable government interventions are instantaneous enhancement of public work days under MGNREGA, enhanced food subsidy and ration under Public Distribution System (PDS), and a moratorium on loan repayment or immediate compensation, among others. Likewise, the medium-term interventions are adopting contingency crop planning, developing alternative employment opportunities, and local infrastructure.
benefited by the scheme. However, findings of the study suggest that still there is a scope for effective implementation of the scheme through capacity building, formation of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPO), insurance coverage, requisite infrastructure development, promotion of value addition and marketing & brand development. Besides, through this scheme, potential production pockets can be identified for promotion of organic agriculture. There exists huge export market which can be leveraged through this scheme for earning foreign exchange.
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare assigned the task of evaluating the scheme since its inception to MANAGE. The study brought out important aspects of value chain development for organic products envisaged in the projects.