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Title: IMPACT OF FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES ON INDIA’S AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: A STUDY USING OLS MODEL
Authors: Sankalp Rawal
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Sankalp Rawal Department of Economics, Aryabhatta College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, 110021
MLA 8 Rawal, Sankalp. "IMPACT OF FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES ON INDIA’S AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: A STUDY USING OLS MODEL." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 6, no. 9, Sept. 2021, pp. 3339-3357, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i09.018. Accessed Sept. 2021. APA 6 Rawal, S. (2021, September). IMPACT OF FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES ON INDIA’S AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: A STUDY USING OLS MODEL. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 6(9), 3339-3357. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i09.018 Chicago Rawal, Sankalp. "IMPACT OF FERTILIZERS AND PESTICIDES ON INDIA’S AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY: A STUDY USING OLS MODEL." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 6, no. 9 (September 2021), 3339-3357. Accessed September, 2021. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2021.v06i09.018.
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Abstract: The significance of the secondary and tertiary sectors in India's GDP is increasing, yet the primary sector or agriculture, in particular, has always been vital for India's growth. The agriculture sector depends on critical inputs such as pesticides and fertilizer. This paper seeks to quantify and analyze the impact of fertilizers and pesticides on India's agricultural yield from 1980 to 2014. A multiple linear regression model using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method is derived to obtain the required results. The paper also presents additional tests performed to check for OLS violations and validate the results derived from the model. The paper's findings suggest that an increase in 1% of the fertilizer consumption by Indian farmers increases India's mean predicted total agriculture yield by 0.186406%, keeping consumption of pesticides constant. Likewise, an increase of 1% of the consumption of pesticides by Indian farmers increases India's mean predicted total agriculture yield by 0.0746664%, keeping fertilizers constant.

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