October 30th, 2013

BioDIVA research fellow Monish Jose and colleague Ulrike Grote were invited to present a paper at the 21. Annual AERA Conference "Sustainable Agricultural Growth for Improving Rural Livelihood Security" in Srinagar, India on September 10th-12th, 2013.

In their presentation they introduced the study "Acreage response of paddy farmers in Wayanad: Application of Autoregressive Distributive Lag bounds testing approach". This study has estimated the impact of price and non-price factors on the acreage response of paddy farmers so that appropriate policies are formulated to promote paddy cultivation based on empirical evidences.

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