Prakashan Chellattan Veettil
Biographic Data
| ID | 1401016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prakashan Chellattan Veettil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prakashan Chellattan |
| FAMILY NAME | Veettil |
| SIGNATURE | VEETTIL P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2125-0178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Farmer Risk Perception and Crop Insurance Uptake in India
Despite substantial government subsidies, the uptake of crop insurance in India remains low. This study examines how farmers’ risk perceptions influence their crop insurance adoption decisions and assesses the impact of insurance participation on paddy income. Using an endogenous switching regression model and a primary dataset of 3,000 randomly selected rice farmers from Odisha, India, the analysis reveals that drought is perceived as the most s…
Labor Scarcity and Technology Adoption in Agriculture: Evidence from Rural India during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Locus of Control and Economic Decision-Making: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India
How differential vulnerability and empowerment dynamics work to determine the agricultural performance of women-operated smallholdings: Evidence from Assam, North-East India
Pareto efficiency in intrahousehold allocations: Evidence from rice farming households in India
Intrahousehold models assume that plots farmed by women are as productive as plots farmed by men within the same household. Using a large plot-level dataset on rice farming households in India, we find evidence of significant Pareto inefficiency: women’s plots produce lower yields compared to their spouse’s plots, conditional on crop, plot and other attributes. The inefficiency is larger in the left tail of the rice yield distribution and primari…
Information quality, adoption of climate-smart varieties and their economic impact in flood-risk areas
Weather extremes which are accelerated by changing climate greatly decrease agricultural productivity, resulting in severe economic losses and losses of livelihood of the poorest marginal communities. The adoption of stress-tolerant rice varieties (STRVs) is recommended as a best technology fix for risk adaptation. Although STRVs provide better outcomes with no yield penalty, farmers' decisions to adopt new STRVs are influenced by a multitude of …
Gender differences in rice value chain participation and career preferences of rural youth in India
Ageing farming communities and youth abandoning agriculture are serious issues, with attracting and retaining youth in agriculture a key challenge. This article reports on a gender-sensitive study of rural youth conducted in eastern India. The willingness to be involved in agriculture varies across region and gender, with the high readiness of female youths signalling a feminisation in agriculture. Involvement in value chain activities has a sign…
Caste, Social Networks and Variety Adoption
Social networks influence technology diffusion but targeting formal leaders (institutional central nodes) may lead to distributional consequences. This paper analyzes the role of informal social networks in technology diffusion in a socially hierarchical caste-based society. Often, information flow and technology diffusion are constrained by social and economic boundaries where informal nodes such as caste play a very decisive role in everyday li…
Receiving information about rice seeds on mobile phones in eastern India
This article examines how farmers use mobile phones to obtain information about rice varieties in eastern India and investigates if this contributes to rice varietal replacement. The findings show that farmers located farther away from the market were more likely to pay for the calls. Moreover, about 26% of the farmers who had to pay to receive calls purchased seeds of at least one rice variety that they had never planted before, while less than …
Farmers’ preferences for supermarket contracts in Kenya
Toward Improving the Design of Sustainability Standards—A Gendered Analysis of Farmers’ Preferences
Estimating the causal effect of water scarcity on the groundwater use efficiency of rice farming in South India
Valuing the ‘bundle of land rights’: On formalising indigenous people's (adivasis) land rights in Kerala, India
What nutrition label to use in a catering environment? A discrete choice experiment
Complementarity between water pricing, water rights and local water governance: A Bayesian analysis of choice behaviour of farmers in the Krishna river basin, India
Farmers’ preferences for supermarket contracts in Kenya
Toward Improving the Design of Sustainability Standards—A Gendered Analysis of Farmers’ Preferences
Valuing the ‘bundle of land rights’: On formalising indigenous people's (adivasis) land rights in Kerala, India
Caste, Social Networks and Variety Adoption
Social networks influence technology diffusion but targeting formal leaders (institutional central nodes) may lead to distributional consequences. This paper analyzes the role of informal social networks in technology diffusion in a socially hierarchical caste-based society. Often, information flow and technology diffusion are constrained by social and economic boundaries where informal nodes such as caste play a very decisive role in everyday li…
What nutrition label to use in a catering environment? A discrete choice experiment
Complementarity between water pricing, water rights and local water governance: A Bayesian analysis of choice behaviour of farmers in the Krishna river basin, India
What nutrition label to use in a catering environment? A discrete choice experiment
Estimating the causal effect of water scarcity on the groundwater use efficiency of rice farming in South India
Valuing the ‘bundle of land rights’: On formalising indigenous people's (adivasis) land rights in Kerala, India
Farmers’ preferences for supermarket contracts in Kenya
Toward Improving the Design of Sustainability Standards—A Gendered Analysis of Farmers’ Preferences
Receiving information about rice seeds on mobile phones in eastern India
This article examines how farmers use mobile phones to obtain information about rice varieties in eastern India and investigates if this contributes to rice varietal replacement. The findings show that farmers located farther away from the market were more likely to pay for the calls. Moreover, about 26% of the farmers who had to pay to receive calls purchased seeds of at least one rice variety that they had never planted before, while less than …
Caste, Social Networks and Variety Adoption
Social networks influence technology diffusion but targeting formal leaders (institutional central nodes) may lead to distributional consequences. This paper analyzes the role of informal social networks in technology diffusion in a socially hierarchical caste-based society. Often, information flow and technology diffusion are constrained by social and economic boundaries where informal nodes such as caste play a very decisive role in everyday li…
Information quality, adoption of climate-smart varieties and their economic impact in flood-risk areas
Weather extremes which are accelerated by changing climate greatly decrease agricultural productivity, resulting in severe economic losses and losses of livelihood of the poorest marginal communities. The adoption of stress-tolerant rice varieties (STRVs) is recommended as a best technology fix for risk adaptation. Although STRVs provide better outcomes with no yield penalty, farmers' decisions to adopt new STRVs are influenced by a multitude of …
Gender differences in rice value chain participation and career preferences of rural youth in India
Ageing farming communities and youth abandoning agriculture are serious issues, with attracting and retaining youth in agriculture a key challenge. This article reports on a gender-sensitive study of rural youth conducted in eastern India. The willingness to be involved in agriculture varies across region and gender, with the high readiness of female youths signalling a feminisation in agriculture. Involvement in value chain activities has a sign…
Pareto efficiency in intrahousehold allocations: Evidence from rice farming households in India
Intrahousehold models assume that plots farmed by women are as productive as plots farmed by men within the same household. Using a large plot-level dataset on rice farming households in India, we find evidence of significant Pareto inefficiency: women’s plots produce lower yields compared to their spouse’s plots, conditional on crop, plot and other attributes. The inefficiency is larger in the left tail of the rice yield distribution and primari…
How differential vulnerability and empowerment dynamics work to determine the agricultural performance of women-operated smallholdings: Evidence from Assam, North-East India
Locus of Control and Economic Decision-Making: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India
Farmer Risk Perception and Crop Insurance Uptake in India
Despite substantial government subsidies, the uptake of crop insurance in India remains low. This study examines how farmers’ risk perceptions influence their crop insurance adoption decisions and assesses the impact of insurance participation on paddy income. Using an endogenous switching regression model and a primary dataset of 3,000 randomly selected rice farmers from Odisha, India, the analysis reveals that drought is perceived as the most s…
Labor Scarcity and Technology Adoption in Agriculture: Evidence from Rural India during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Economics (12 works) · Agricultural Innovations and Practices (8 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (8 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Agricultural economics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Biology (3 works)