Measuring the agricultural sustainability of India:An application of Pressure-State-Response(PSR)model

作     者：Surendra Singh JATAV Kalu NAIK Surendra Singh JATAV;Kalu NAIK

作者机构：Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar UniversityLucknow226025India India Council of Agricultural Research(ICAR)-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy ResearchNew Delhi110012India 

出 版 物：《区域可持续发展(英文)》 (Regional Sustainability)

年 卷 期：2023年第4卷第3期

页      面：218-234页

学科分类：120301[管理学-农业经济管理] 12[管理学] 1203[管理学-农林经济管理] 

基　　金：Commission for Agricultural Costs Department of Economics, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, MOAFW 

主　　题：Indicator approach Agro-climatic region Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) Pressure-State-Response(PSR)model Environmental sustainability index Economic security index Social security index Agricultural sustainability index 

摘      要：Analyzing agricultural sustainability is essential for designing and assessing rural development ***,accurately measuring agricultural sustainability is complicated since it involves so many different *** study provides a new suite of quantitative indicators for assessing agricultural sustainability at regional and district levels,involving environmental sustainability,social security,and economic *** the PressureState-Response(PSR)model and indicator approach,this study creates a composite agricultural sustainability index for the 14 mainstream agro-climatic regions of *** results of this study show that the Trans-Gengatic Plain Region(TGPR)ranks first in agricultural sustainability among India s 14 mainstream agro-climatic regions,while the Eastern Himalayan Region(EHR)ranks *** livestock ownership,cropping intensity,per capita income,irrigation intensity,share of institutional credit,food grain productivity,crop diversification,awareness of minimum support price,knowledge sharing with fellow farmers,and young and working population,as well as better transportation facilities and membership of agricultural credit societies are influencing indicators responsible for higher agricultural sustainability in TGPR compared with ***,the scores of environmental sustainability indicators of EHR are quite good,its scores of social and economic security indicators are fairly low,putting it at the bottom of the rank of agricultural sustainability index among the 14 mainstream agroclimatic regions in *** demonstrates the need of understanding agricultural sustainability in relation to social and economic *** a nation as diverse and complicated as India,it is the social structure that determines the health of the economy and *** but not least,the sustainability assessment methodology may be used in a variety of India s agro-climatic regions.