Associate Professor, Agricultural Development and Rural Transformation Centre (ADRTC)

• International trade and Agriculture

• Livestock Economics

• Non-Farm Sector

• Institutional Economics

• Natural Resource Management

• M. Sc. in Agricultural Economics and Statistics, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

• Ph.D. in Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Articles

• Relationship between Agricultural Credit Policy, Credit Disbursements and Crop Productivity: A Study in Karnataka, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 66(3): 444-456, July-September 2011.

• Total Factor Productivity Growth and Its Determinants in Karnataka Agriculture, ISEC Working Paper 265, ISEC, Bangalore, 2011.

• Futures and Spot Price Relations: A Case of Pepper in India (with N. Rangasamy), Indian Journal of Agricultural Marketing, 24(2): 104-110, 2010.

• Post Quota Regime and Comparative Advantage in Export of India’s Textile and Clothing, Journal of International Economics, 1(2):14-30, July-December 2010, (IPE, Hyderabad).

• Effect of Trade Liberalisation on the Efficiency of Indian Dairy Industry (with Pratap S Birthal), Journal of International and Area Studies, 17(1):-1-15, June 2010.

• Futures Market in Indian Agriculture and its Impact on Production and Prices, Rapporteur’s Report, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 65(1):49-51, January-March 2010.

• “India’s Tax Regime”, In: Moving to Goods and Services Tax in India: Impact on India’s Growth and International Trade, December 2009, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, 2009.

• Trends in Public Expenditure in Livestock Sector of India during the Period of Economic Reforms, Annual Conference Volume of Indian Economic Association, 92(2): 51-57, December 2009.

  • The same paper published in Anil Kumar Thakur and Mithilesh Kumar Sinha (2011) (Eds), Structural Reforms and Agriculture, Deep and Deep Publications Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, pp.292-303

• Market Opportunities and Challenges for Agri-Biotech Products in India (with N. Rangasamy), Agricultural Economics Research Review, 22: 471-481, 2009.

• Price Discovery in India’s Agricultural Commodity Futures Markets (with N. Rangasamy and R. K. Sharma), Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, July-September 2009.

• “Indo-China Border Trade through Nathu La: Prospects for Growth and Investment in Sikkim” In Jayanta Kumar Ray, Rakhee Bhattacharya and Kausik Bandhyopadyay (eds.), Sikkim’s Tryst With Nathu La: What Awaits India’s East and Northeast?, pp. 43-66, Anshah Publishing House, Delhi, 2009.

• Trade Protection of India’s Milk Products: Structure and Policy Implications, Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 63(1): 67-83, January-March 2008.

• Measuring Comparative Advantage in Export of India’s Dairy Products, The Asian Economic Review, 49(3): 407-420, December 2007.

• Livestock in North-Eastern Region of India: An Appraisal of Performance (with Anjani Kumar, Steven Staal, D.K. Singh), Agricultural Economics Research Review, 20: 255-272, July-December 2007.

• Technical Efficiency in Freshwater Aqualculture in Uttar Pradesh (with Anjani Kumar and Badruddin), Indian Journal of Economics, Vol. LXXXVI, No. 341, 175-187, 2006.

• WTO and Dairy: Recent Developments in Trade Negotiations (with R. K. Sharma), Foreign Trade Review, 40(2): 51-68, July-September 2005.

• Non-Agricultural Employment for Rural Households in India: Some Evidences, Afro-Asian Journal of Rural Development, 37(1): 69-84, January-June 2004.

• Technological Change in Livestock Sector of Haryana (with U. K. Pandey), Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 59(2): 249-258, April-June 2004.

• Changing Scenario of Livestock and Poultry Compositional Structure in Haryana (Co-author: U. K. Pandey), Agricultural Situation in India, 403-406, October 2004.

• Non-Farm Employment for Rural Households in India (with R. K. Sharma), Agricultural Economics Research Review, 1-19, December 2003.

• Growth and Density Scenario of Livestock and Poultry in Haryana (with U. K. Pandey), Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 73(10): 1168-1173, October 2003.

• Challenges for Agricultural Sector in Karnataka during 12th Five Year Plan (with P G Chengappa), FKCCI Journal, 32(12):14-17, December 2011.

• Review of the Book Agriculture in Developing Countries: Technology Issues by Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan (eds.). Journal of Social and Economic Development, 13(1):149-151, January-June 2011.

• Agricultural Growth in Karnataka: A District Level Analysis, FKCCI Journal, 32(1):19-30, January 2011.

• Proceedings of National Workshop on Inclusive Agricultural Growth: Regional Perspective (with G B Lokesh), Edited, National Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) and Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, 2010.

• Accord Priority to Check Price Rise of Food Items, Deccan Herald, March 10, Wednesday 2010.

• Neglect of Farm Sector: FM’s Lip Service”, Deccan Herald, 22 July, Wednesday 2009.

• Trends in Public Expenditure in the Indian Livestock Sector, background paper contributed to World Bank’s Report on Livestock Support Services in India, June 2008

• Implications of Sixth Pay Commission Recommendations, Macrotrack, Vol. X, No.4, April 2008.

• Indebtedness of India’s Farmer Households and Role of Rural Financial System, National Council of Applied Economic Research, Study sponsored by Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, March 2008.

• Changing Consumption Pattern of Oil and Gas, Macrotrack, Vol. X, No.3, March 2008.

• Union Budget 2008-09 and Industry Prospects, Macrotrack, Vol. X, No.2, February 2008.

• Food Security and Inflation Control in India, National Council of Applied Economic Research, Study sponsored by Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, December 2007.

• India’s Burgeoning Oil Import Bill, Macrotrack, Vol. IX, No. 10, October 2007.

• Status of Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Sector in India”, National Council of Applied Economic Research, Study sponsored by Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, September 2007.

• India’s Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with ASEAN, China and Korea, National Council of Applied Economic Research, Study sponsored by Embassy of Japan, New Delhi, 2007.

• Indo-China Trade through Nathu La (with Rajesh Chadha), Macrotrack, Vol. IX, No.8, August 2007.

• Railways and the Private Sector, Macrotrack, Vol. IX, No.6, June 2007.

• Tracking Japan’s ODA to India (with Rajesh Chadha), Macrotrack, Vol. IX, No.5, April 2007.

• Relationship between Agricultural Credit Policy, Credit Disbursements and Crop Productivity: A Study in Karnataka”, paper presented at the 71^st Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, 3-5 November 2011.

• Effectiveness of Farm Input Subsidies: Field Evidences from Tamil Nadu (with Sujata Sundaram), paper presented at National Seminar on Agriculture at Cross Roads: Issues and Challenges, organised by Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, 28-29 September 2011.

• Trends in India’s Agricultural Growth and its Determinants, paper presented at National Seminar on Agriculture at Cross Roads: Issues and Challenges, organised by Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, 28-29 September 2011.

• Agricultural Incomes: Trends and Implications, paper presented at National Seminar on Transformation, Transition or Stagnation?: Understanding Change in Indian Economy, organised by Department of Economics, Christ University, Bangalore, 16-17 September 2011.

• Trends in Agricultural Incomes: An Analysis at Select Crops and States Level in India, paper presented at National Seminar on Productivity in Indian Agriculture, held at College of Agricultural Banking, Pune, 2-3 September 2011.

• Trends in Agricultural Production and Productivity, paper presented at a Workshop on Vision of Karnataka for the Approach Paper to the XII Five Year Plan”, 30-31 May 2011, ISEC, Bangalore-560 072.

• Trends in Agricultural Productivity in Karnataka, paper presented at a Workshop on Evolving Strategies for Karnataka’s Economic Growth, organised by Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) and ISEC, at FKCCI, Bangalore, 8 April 2011.

• Agriculture and Rural Development in India, presented at National Seminar on Rural Development in India: Progress, Problems and Programme Effectiveness, 2-3 December 2010, Department of Economics, University of Kerala, Trivandrum.

• Export Advantage in India’s Agro-Food Products, presented at a Conference on Challenges and Way Forward for Agricultural Products Exports, 10 November 2010, Hotel Le Royal Meridien, Chennai.

• Technology Initiatives for Enhancing Raw Material (Cotton) Availability, presented at Workshop on Knowledge and Skill Up-gradation in Textile Industry Issues and Options, organised by IIT Madras and ISEC, 29 October 2010, Friday, ISEC Seminar Hall.

• Estimating PSE for Indian Dairy Sector, paper presented at Quantitative Modelling Approaches for Economic Policy Analysis in Agriculture, 12-13 August 2010, held at National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (NCAP), New Delhi.

• Agricultural Growth and Productivity in Karnataka: A District Level Analysis, paper presented at the National Workshop on Inclusive Agricultural Growth: Regional Perspective, 31 March 2010, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore.

• Price Discovery in India’s Agricultural Commodity Futures Markets (with N. Rangasamy and R K Sharma), paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, 17-19 December 2009, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar (Punjab).

• Competition and Regulation Issues in Indian Agricultural Markets (with Rajesh Chadha, Scott Davenport), paper presented at International Workshop on Agricultural Trade Liberalisation and Domestic Market Reforms in Indian Agriculture, June 5, 2008, The Claridges, New Delhi.

• Indo-China Border Trade through Nathu La: Prospects for Growth and Investment in Sikkim”, paper presented in a National Conference on Sikkim in the Perspective of Development Dynamics of East and Northeast India, 19-20 November 2007, Gangtok (Sikkim).

• Indian Agricultural Markets: Competition and Regulation Issues (with Rajesh Chadha), paper presented at Competition Commission of India (CCI), 11 May 2007, New Delhi.

• Agricultural Growth and Productivity: Inter-state Variations (with Anjani Kumar), Paper presented in a Seminar on Accelerated Economic Growth and Regional Balance: Recent Experiences and Implications for Inter-state Variations in Development, September 16-18, 2006, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi-70

• Estimation of Producer and Consumer Support for Indian Dairy Sector, Paper presented at South Asia Regional Conference of International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), Hyderabad, March 23-25, 2005.

• Trade Liberalization and Small Farm Holders: Assessment of Implication through SWOT Analysis (with Laxmi Tewari, Pratap S. Birthal and P.K. Joshi), Agricultural Economics Research Review, Paper presented at IX Annual Conference of Agricultural Economics Research Association on November 11-12, 2001, Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi.

• Growth Performance in Food Production and its Marketing Aspects in India, Poster presented at International Conference on Nature Farming and Ecological Balance (ICNFEB-2001), Hisar, March 7-10, 2001.

Recent Research Projects Completed

• Review of Developmental Programmes and Schemes of Departments of Co-operation and Agricultural Marketing, Commissioned by Expenditure Reforms Commission, Government of Karnataka, 2011.

• Determinants of Stagnation in Productivity of Important Crops in India, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, 2009-10.

• India’s Export of Textile and Textile Products, Madras School of Economics (MSE),Commissioned by Ministry of Forests and Environment, Government of India, 2008-09.

• How Inclusive is the Impact of FDI on the Indian Economy? Analysis of Regional, Employment and Growth Effects, National Council of Applied Economic Research, Study commissioned by Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, 2007-08.

• Agricultural Trade Liberalisation and Domestic Market Reforms in Indian Agriculture, National Council of Applied Economic Research, Study sponsored by Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Australian Government, 2007-08.

• Potential of Indo-China Border Trade through Nathu La, National Council of Applied Economic Research, Study commissioned by Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, 2006-07.

• Conservation Agriculture- A Scoping Study, Commissioned by International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), South Asia Office, New Delhi, 2005-06

• ICSSR Institutional Doctoral Fellowship, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, 2002-2005

• Junior Research Fellowship, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, 1999-2001

Dr. Elumalai Kannan
Associate Professor, ADRTC
Institute for Social and Economic Change
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