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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2018
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2018-56
Verlag: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Zusammenfassung: 
In a developing economy, the availability of storage infrastructure is considered essential for two purposes; the reduction of post-harvest losses resulting in food shortage, and allowing for gains from inter-temporal trade due to potential arbitrage opportunities arising out of volatility in food grain prices. This paper provides empirical evidence on a lesser studied impact of storage infrastructure, viz, agricultural yield. The author exploits potentially exogenous variation generated by the intensity of access to a capital investment subsidy program for construction and renovation of rural godowns in India to identify causal effects of better storage on yield. He finds that the program led to an increase in rice yield by 0.3 tons per hectare, approximately a 20% increase compared to the baseline. A potential mediating channel for such an effect would be reduced storage costs facilitating better investments in productive inputs. As supportive evidence, the author finds that fertilizer consumption increased by 21% in response to the intervention.
Schlagwörter: 
storage
yield
fertilizer consumption
Grameen Bhandaran Yojana
JEL: 
Q12
Q18
O12
O13
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