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Prakashan Chellattan Veettil

Prakashan Chellattan Veettil

Agricultural Economist, Impact Evaluation, Foresight and Policy, Sustainable Impact

About

Prakash joined IRRI in May 2015 as an agricultural economist and currently leads the social science activities in South Asia. His team is involved in rice varietal tracking and identification, adoption and impact assessment of stress tolerant varieties, developing premium rice value chains and business model development for service delivery in the rice farming system. He is involved in bilateral projects such as Rice Monitoring System in South Asia (RMS-SA), Cereal System Initiative for Sustainable Intensification (CSISA) and Stress Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (STRASA).  Before joining IRRI, he was working at GlobalFood group, University of Goettingen, Germany where his primary focus was on analysing producer preferences and participation of smallholders to modern market value chains. The analysis involves gendered preferences for certification standards among small producers and vegetable suppliers of supermarkets. Recent research works in IRRI centred on preference analysis of rice seed producers and consumers, caste and social networks, varietal adoption and turn over, information and technology adoption, hypothetical bias, measurement error in agricultural surveys, crop insurance choice and premium rice value chains.

Expertise

  • Producer/consumer preferences
  • Adoption and Impact assessment
  • Seed systems and seed markets
  • Modern value chains and markets
  • Choice Experiment and RCTs

Education

  • PhD, Ghent University, Belgium
    Dissertation:   “Irrigation Water Management and Pricing Institutions in Krishna River Basin, India” 
  • International Master of Science in Rural Development (IMRD) – Erasmus Mundus (Ghent University, Belgium & Humboldt University, Berlin)
    Thesis:   “Institution of Land Property rights and its influence on rural livelihood of Indigenous people of Westernghat, India”

Work History

  • Agricultural Economist, Social Science Division, IRRI (2015 onwards)
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany (2013-2015)
  • Assistant Professor, Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum (2012-2013)
  • Assistant Professor, Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi (2012)
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Ghent University, Belgium (2011-2012)

Publications

  1. Raghu, P. T., Veettil, P. C., & Das, S. 2022. Smallholder adaptation to flood risks: Adoption and impact of Swarna-Sub1 in Eastern India. Environmental Challenges, 7, 100480.
  2. Veettil, P. C., & Johny, J. 2021. Group contracts and sustainability: Experimental evidence from smallholder seed production. PloS one, 16(8), e0255176.
  3. Veettil, P. C., Raghu, P. T., & Ashok, A. 2021. Information quality, adoption of climate-smart varieties and their economic impact in flood-risk areas. Environment and Development Economics, 26(1), 45-68.
  4. Shandal, M. Mohapatra, S. & Veettil, P.C. 2021. Pareto efficiency in intrahousehold allocations: evidence from rice farming households in India, Oxford Development Studies, DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2021.2020741
  5. Gupta, I., Veettil, P. C., & Speelman, S. 2020. Caste, Social Networks and Variety Adoption. Journal of South Asian Development, 15(2), 155-183.
  6. Aravindakshan, S., Rossi, F., Amjath-Babu, T. S., Veettil, P. C., & Krupnik, T. J. 2018. Application of a bias-corrected meta-frontier approach and an endogenous switching regression to analyze the technical efficiency of conservation tillage for wheat in South Asia. Journal of Productivity Analysis, 49(2), 153-171.
  7. Sibiko, K. W., Veettil, P. C., & Qaim, M. 2018. Small farmers’ preferences for weather index insurance: insights from Kenya. Agriculture & Food Security, 7(1), 1-14.
  8. Veettil, P.C., Krishna, V.V. & Qaim, M. 2016. Ecosystem Impacts of Pesticide Reductions through Bt Cotton Adoption. Australian Journal of Agricultural & Resource Economics (forthcoming): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8489.12171 
  9. Krishna, V. V., D.J. Spielman & Veettil, P.C., 2015. Exploring the supply and demand factors of varietal turnover in Indian wheat. The Journal of Agricultural Science 154 (2): 258-272.  Available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021859615000155.   
  10. Krishna, V. V. & Veettil, P.C., 2014. Productivity and Efficiency Impacts of Zero Tillage Wheat in Northwest Indo Gangetic Plains. Agricultural Systems 127: 126-138.  Available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2014.02.004.