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Thomas Felix K

Faculty

Thomas Felix K

Assistant Professor (Economics)
Agricultural Development and Rural Transformation Centre (ADRTC)
Institute for Social and Economic Change,

Orcid Id: 0000-0002-9285-9765

Scopus Id: 57221776635

Google Scholar Id: sw974yYAAAAJ

Google Scholar link: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=sw974yYAAAAJ&hl=en

Area of Specialisation

Agricultural Production Economics, Agricultural Finance and Marketing, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Law and Economics.

Academic Qualification

Dr. Thomas Felix K completed his SSLC from St. Antony’s Boys Higher Secondary School in 2007 with a score of 86.40%. He then pursued his Higher Secondary education at Vidhya Vikas Boys Higher Secondary School, graduating in 2009 with 84.70%.

He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.Sc. Agriculture) from Thanthai Roever Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development, in 2013, securing 79.90%. He went on to complete his Master of Science in Agricultural Economics (M.Sc.) at the Agricultural College and Research Institute, graduating in 2015 with 86.20%.

Further advancing his academic career, Dr. Thomas Felix K earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) in 2018, with an impressive 88.70%.

In addition to his academic degrees, he has cleared several competitive eligibility tests. He qualified the Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB) NET in Agricultural Economics in both 2017 and 2018, with scores of 51.33% and 50%, respectively. He also cleared the University Grants Commission (UGC) NET in Economics in 2017 with 53.71%, and the Tamil Nadu State Eligibility Test (TNSET) in Economics the same year with 57.06%. Also a recipient of the UGC-Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) for Ph.D. studies and the ICSSR Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

  1. Patil, P.K., Geetha, R., Mishra, S.S., Abraham, T.J., Solanki, H.G., Krupesha Sharma, S.R., Pradhan, P.K., Manna, S.K., Avunje, S., Abhinaya, D. and Felix, K.T., 2025. Unveiling the economic burden of diseases in aquatic animal food production in India. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 9, p.1480094.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-systems/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1480094/full

  1. Khangar, N.S., Mohanasundari, T., Bisla, M., Felix, K.T. and Durga, A.R., 2025. Environmental impact analysis of crop residue burning in Madhya Pradesh: A multivariate comparison across key crops. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 197(2), p.211.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10661-025-13655-w

  1. Felix, K.T., Ramappa, K.B. and Govindarajan, P.L., 2024. Strategies to scale up the technical, allocative and economic efficiency of major millet growing farmers in India–A primal system approach. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 24, p.100493.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665972724001612

  1. Raghavendra, K.V., Rekha, B., Ramesh, K.B., Felix, K.T. and Chander, S., 2024. Potential of yellow sticky trap apropos monitoring and mass trapping of insect pests of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Miller): a field study. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 44(4), pp.1797-1805.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42690-024-01282-w

  1. Felix, K.T. and Ramappa, K.B., 2023. An economic analysis of crop diversification and dynamics of cropping pattern in Karnataka, India. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1), pp.1-9.

http://nature.com/articles/s41599-023-02078-y

  1. Raghavendra, K.V., Rekha, B., Ramesh, K.B., Felix, K.T. and Chander, S., 2023. Integrated pest management strategy for striped flea beetle, Phyllotreta striolata infesting radish (Raphanus sativus). 93 (12).

https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/138123

  1. Raghavendra, K.V., Meshram, N.M., Ramesh, K.B., Ramaiah, M., Felix, K.T., Vaibhav, V., Rekha, B., Sardana, H.R. and Chander, S., 2022. Mirid bug Nesidiocoris tenuis (Reuter), a potential challenge to bottle gourd Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standley production: a study from India. Phytoparasitica, 50(5), pp.973-989.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12600-022-01020-3

  1. Wawale, S.G., Jawarneh, M., Kumar, P.N., Felix, T., Bhola, J., Raj, R., Eswaran, S. and Boddu, R., 2022. [Retracted] Minimizing the Error Gap in Smart Framing by Forecasting Production and Demand Using ARIMA Model. Journal of Food Quality, 2022(1), p.1139440.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2022/1139440

  1. Malaiarasan, U., Paramasivam, R. and Felix, K.T., 2021. Crop diversification: determinants and effects under paddy-dominated cropping system. Paddy and Water Environment, 19, pp.417-432.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349186971_Crop_diversification_determinants_and_effects_under_paddy-dominated_cropping_system

  1. Malaiarasan, U., Paramasivam, R. and Felix, K.T., 2021. Does food price subsidy affect dietary diversity? Evidence from south India. Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, 15(2), pp.268-290.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0973801021990397

  1. Felix, K.T., Kumar, P.N. and Arivarasan, S., An Economic Approach to Improve the Productivity of Sugarcane-A Stochastic Frontier Approach.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665972721000349

  1. Dr. Thomas Felix K. (Co-author) (2024). Glimpses of Agricultural Marketing in India as a co-author in 2024, VIT publication with ISBN 978-93-92811-74-6

  2. Dr. Thomas Felix K. (2022). Environmental Economics. AGPH Publisher. ISBN: 978-93-95468-52-7.

  3. Dr. Thomas Felix K. (Co-author) (2023). Economics, Marketing and Finance: Basic to Advance. SIPH Publisher. ISBN: 978-93-5757-234-7.

  4. Dr. Thomas Felix K. (Co-author) (2024). Glimpses of Agricultural Marketing in India. ISBN: 978-93-92811-74-6

  5. Boohene, D., Thomas, F. K., Manideep, A. S., Guha, S. K., Ganguly, P., & Kumar, P. N. (2024). The Recent Advancements in Security, Privacy and Trust in Mobile and Wireless Communication in the Emerging Economies (pp. 289–295). In Computer Science Engineering and Emerging Technologies. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. ISBN: 978-1-032-52199-2 (pbk), 978-1-003-40558-0 (ebk)

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003405580-45/recent-advancements-security-privacy-trust-mobile-wireless-communication-emerging-economies-david-boohene-felix-thomas-sai-manideep-shouvik-kumar-guha-pralay-ganguly-naveen-kumar

  1. Felix, K. T., & Ramappa, K. B. (2024). Comprehensive guide to modern agricultural economics [Review of the book Comprehensive Guide to Modern Agricultural Economics. Economic & Political Weekly (EPW), 59 (42). https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/42/book-reviews/comprehensive-guide-modern-agricultural-economics.html

  2. Felix, K. T., & Ramappa, K. B. (2024). Book review: Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Development Theory. Review of Development and Change (SAGE), 29 (1). (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09722661241239792)

  1. Dr. Thomas Felix K. (Co-author) (2025). Strengthening Land Titling to Enhance Farmers’ Livelihoods and Credit Access. ISEC Policy Brief No. 59, February 2025. Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC)

  2. Dr. Thomas Felix K. (Co-author) (2025). Assessing the Status of Tuna Fishery in India: A Study with Special Reference to Lakshadweep. ISEC Working Paper No. 599, April 2025. Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC)

  1. Strategies to Scaling up India’s Nutri-Cereal Production, Consumption and Trade, sponsored by ISEC, Bengaluru

  2. Evaluation of Finances of State of Karnataka, sponsored by the Government of Karnataka

Below listed projects were sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India)

  1. Village Study in Karnataka

  2. Estimation of Coconut Processing, Transportation and Marketing Costs in India – Karnataka

  3. Impact Evaluation of Pilot Project “Development of Model Villages under Soil Health Card Scheme implemented during 2019–20 across the country – Consolidated Pan India Study”

  4. Feedback on Concurrent Evaluation of Flagship Programmes of the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare during 2023–24

  5. Comprehensive Impact Assessment Study for PMFBY/RWBCIS

  6. Study of Kisan Credit Card (KCC) in India with Special Reference to Animal Husbandry and Fisheries: A Realistic Assessment

  7. A Detailed Analysis of Millet Value Chain in India – The Production, Processing, Consumption, and Export

  8. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN): Problems, Prospects, and Needed Improvements

  9. Rejuvenating Rice Fallow Land: An All-India Study Using Remote Sensing and GIS

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