IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijarge/v19y2023i1p64-89.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Organic farming of rice with water-saving techniques - evidence of enviro-economic benefits from Uttarakhand, India

Author

Listed:
  • Samraj Sahay
  • Manab Chakraborty

Abstract

The present study assesses the economic feasibility of organic farming for Basmati and paddy along with economic benefits, water savings and efficiency of organic paddy using three water-saving techniques - alternate wet and drying (AWD), direct seeding of rice (DSR) and systemic rice intensification (SRI). Data from two participatory field trials conducted in Nainital District of Uttarakhand, India was used for the evaluation. The enviro-economic benefits were determined using the gross margin, water saved, irrigation and economic water productivity. The gross margin for organic was 11.10% and 6.76% more than the conventional for Basmati and paddy respectively. SRI was the most feasible choice with highest yield, gross margin, irrigation water productivity of 2.40 kg/m3 [2.75 times of conventional farming (CF)] and economic water productivity of 108.10 INR/m3 (2.87 times of CF), followed by AWD, DSR and CF. The findings encourage organic farming with SRI along with an effective market for organics.

Suggested Citation

  • Samraj Sahay & Manab Chakraborty, 2023. "Organic farming of rice with water-saving techniques - evidence of enviro-economic benefits from Uttarakhand, India," International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 19(1), pages 64-89.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijarge:v:19:y:2023:i:1:p:64-89
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=133346
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijarge:v:19:y:2023:i:1:p:64-89. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=1 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.