Ishita Kapur

Nudging farmers to conserve water

Study investigates whether the package of both training and comparisons would be more effective than training alone to urge farmers to conserve water in a field experiment in Haryana.

Kathryn Vasilaky

Aurélie Harou

Katherine Alfredo

Posted on 25 Jul, 2023 10:07 PM

In a randomised field experiment, researchers tested whether training medium scale farmers in an agricultural water reduction practice reduced water use from common aquifers in Haryana, India.

Alternate Wetting and Drying (Image: Zoheb Mahmud Khan)

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