PM-KISAN and the Adoption of Modern Agricultural Technologies (Economic and Political Weekly) 

Economic and Political Weekly (India) published an op-ed by Deepak Varshney, former IFPRI-South Asia Region director PK Joshi, and Senior Research Fellows Devesh Roy and Anjani Kumar on the PM-Kisan scheme that aims to provide income support to farmers for easing their liquidity needs to facilitate timely access to inputs. The authors study finds utility of income support suggest that the spending patterns of farmers are well aligned with the objectives of the scheme, and also establishes the evidence that PM-KISAN has significantly stimulated the KVK’s impact for the adoption of modern paddy cultivars.