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Access to Irrigation and Socioeconomic Status of Farm Households: A Study in a Saline Zone in India

In: Analytical Issues in Growth & Structural Change, Macroeconomy, Security, and Sustainability of India's Economic Development

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  • Sebak Kumar Jana

    (Vidyasagar University, Department of Economics)

  • Shailendra N. Gajanan

    (University of Pittsburgh, Division of Business Management)

Abstract

The paper empirically investigates whether adequate access to irrigation improves the Socioeconomic Status (SES) of poor and marginal rural farmers. The study is based on primary data from a sample of 440 rural farming households located in a saline zone, in the state of West Bengal, India. First, a multidimensional index of SES for each household has been derived, using factor analysis. Then the relationship has been characterized between the SES-index and various independent variables that affect livelihood, including access to irrigation, through quantile regression analysis. Quantile regression results show that while access to irrigation does improve SES, the marginal effects of access differ substantially between low-versus-high income quantiles, and that access to irrigation has larger marginal effects at the lower end of the distribution. The results are useful for targeted irrigation-intervention policy programs.

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  • Sebak Kumar Jana & Shailendra N. Gajanan, 2026. "Access to Irrigation and Socioeconomic Status of Farm Households: A Study in a Saline Zone in India," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Biswajit Chatterjee & Asim K. Karmakar (ed.), Analytical Issues in Growth & Structural Change, Macroeconomy, Security, and Sustainability of India's Economic Development, pages 295-313, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-95-5242-9_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-5242-9_15
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