Shilpi Kapoor

• Ph.D in Economics
• ICAR- National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research

In order to improve incomes, generating year round employment, conservation of natural resources and stabilizing the income over the seasons, crop diversification is regarded as an important strategy to overcome the challenges in agriculture. This study has been undertaken to examine the status and trend of crop diversification in different states...

The agriculture sector is highly vulnerable and sensitive to climatic variations. This study estimates the impact of climate change on the yields of both rabi and kharif crops in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India. The projected impact on the crop yields under RCP 4.5 climatic scenario has revealed that by 2050 and 2080, the yields of paddy would de...

The 2030 Agenda for eradicating poverty and hunger, Sustainable Development Goals made progress in its blueprint and reaffirmed to eradicate poverty (SDG 1), end hunger, and improve nutrition (SDG 2) by 2030. The objective of this article is to study the changing status of consumption expenditure and nutrition intake over time in Madhya Pradesh. Fu...

Agriculture is the most weather-dependent human activity and hence climate change significantly impacts agricultural productivity. In the present study, an attempt has been made to review the existing literature to document and assess the projected crops yield vis-à-vis actual yield of various crops in India. It has been found that most of the stud...

Forests are a precious gift of nature to human for their livelihood. The forest transition narrates the reversal of land use trends during the critical period from loss in net area under forest to the net gain in the long run. Despite the importance of forests for human beings, forests have been lagging behind in terms of income and employment gene...

Agriculture sector has the largest share in employment and value added for many developing countries. This paper analyses the spatial contribution of agriculture sector to income, employment and per worker value added in top thirty countries which have highest share in agriculture sector in the World. The success of agricultural sector in income an...

Punjab state is undoubtedly agricultural developed, but the experience of last few years has shown that there has been a recent slowdown in agricultural growth due to large scale degradation of soil and water resulting into stagnating agricultural productivity and profitability. This study throws light on this aspect studying the trends of the agri...

Over the decades, there has been a puzzle in the path of economic development of India with low female labour force participation rate despite the high economic growth. This study focusses on analysing the changes in labour force participation rate in both rural and urban areas and to find the gender gap in these changes. The LFPR of females is qui...

This paper examines the district profile of poverty estimates across social and religion groups in Punjab and identifies where the poor live so as to provide with suitable policy interventions. It also presents other parameters related to poverty estimates like education of household head and household size in the Punjab based on the National sampl...

Punjab occupies a dominant place in the growth of agriculture since the advent of Green Revolution. There has been shift in the cropping pattern from crop diversification to mono-cropping over the period of time which has led to serious repercussions in environment including decline in groundwater, environmental degradation due to burning of paddy...

The introduction of the farm bills 2020 which is believed to be the historic movement of the government has been strongly opposed by the farmers in India. Since the passing of the 2020 bills, there has been huge hue and cry among the farmers. The most favourable interpretation of this turn is reduction in logistic cost as claimed by the government....

Unemployment is a serious concern and a burning issue which hinders the economic growth of a country. This paper makes an attempt to study the unemployment in pre-pandemic and pandemic situation in India. Moreover, it deeply studies the changes in unemployment in different quarter periods by sector, gender, education and age groups. The unemploymen...

Indian economy is dominated by the agriculture sector with larger employment contribution with ironical fact that agriculture sector has been passing through crisis of low income and low productivity. This study sheds light and deepen with the cross-sectional comparative picture considering the recent data focussing on characteristics of labour mar...

The study has been done on the determinants of accountability of 6 major crops of the State of Haryana from the year 1980-2018. These major crops have been selected as they cover about 85% of the gross cropped area of the state. It has been observed that the two crops, wheat and paddy, have been growing in rotation as the main crop during this peri...

Uttar Pradesh with the advantage of its larger size contributed 18.9 per cent of cereals, 8.65 per cent of pulses, 3.65 per cent of oilseeds and 46.56 per cent of sugarcane to the country during 2017-18. This study has been conducted to explore the trends, patterns and spatial variations of agricultural growth in Uttar Pradesh. Furthermore, the stu...

Punjab is the apex performing state since the green revolution which played a noteworthy contribution to the food self-sufficiency of the nation. But the agricultural performance has not been evenly spread throughout the state. In this study an attempt has been made to analyse the disparity in the agricultural development index (ADI) in various dis...

The present study examined the monthly per capita consumption expenditure and nutrition intake across social and religious groups in Punjab. Furthermore, the drivers of monthly per capita consumption expenditure and calories intake were identified. It was found that the mean difference of the Sikh community was higher than the Hindus and Islamic co...

The aggregate labour force includes a significant portion of the female labour in Punjab. However, there is discrimination of female labourers in the labour market as they do not receive the attention and equality in the labour market. This paper presents the pattern of female labour force participation in Punjab in various rounds of NSS. It reveal...