Authors:
Gert-Jan Stads, Kalpana Sastry, Ganesh Kumar, Tara Kondisetty, and Lang Gao
Year:
2016
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute and National Academy of Agricultural Research Management.
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India has one of the largest and most well-coordinated agricultural research systems in the world. Research is primarily structured around agencies under the ICAR umbrella at the federal level and within agricultural universities at the state level.
Notwithstanding the fact that India’s agricultural research expenditures nearly doubled between 2000 and 2014 (in inflation-adjusted terms), agricultural research spending as a share of AgGDP fell slightly during this timeframe, from 0.34 to 0.30 percent.
Authors:
Beintema, Nienke; Adhiguru, P.; Birthal, Pratap S.; Bawa, A. K.
Year:
2008
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); and National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP)
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Agricultural research and development (R&D) investments are a crucial determinant of agricultural productivity through the introduction of improved crops and cropping practices, labor-saving technologies, improved quality of food storage, processing , and marketing. In addition to newly developed technologies, existing technologies need to be better disseminated.
Authors:
Pal, Suresh; Rahija, Michael; Beintema, Nienke
Year:
2012
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); and Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
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India has substantially increased its public funding of agricultural research since the late 1990s. This trend will likely continue in years to come. The Indian government’s strong commitment to agricultural R&D has been rewarded with high economic and social returns to research investments. Nonetheless, India’s research intensity ratio, measured as public agricultural R&D spending as a share of agricultural output, continues to be relatively low.