Indian Cotton Yield and Farmer Economics Data for Five States, 1999-2014

1999-2014 data from Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh, sourced from the Indian Ministry of Agriculture via the National Informatics Centre. The dataset was used by Gutierrez et al. (2023) to analyze relationships between cotton yields, agricultural inputs, monsoon rainfall, and farmer suicides. It is provided as an XLSX worksheet by Andrew Paul Gutierrez of the University of California, Berkeley.

Use Cases

• Modeling cotton yield based on fertilizer use, irrigation percentage, and monsoon rainfall as described in the source paper.
• Analyzing correlations between insecticide application and crop yields as referenced in the research.
• Investigating relationships between adjusted farmer suicide rates, crop yields, and net revenues per the cited studies.
• Studying the performance of hybrid Bt cotton across major Indian cotton-growing states over a 15-year period.

Strengths

• Data spans 15 years (1999-2014) for longitudinal analysis.
• Covers five major cotton-producing Indian states where most cultivation is rainfed.
• Derived from official state-level data published by the Indian Ministry of Agriculture.
• Has been used in peer-reviewed research published in Environmental Sciences Europe.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Indian Ministry of Agriculture data via the National Informatics Centre (NIC) Open Government Data Platform.

Collection Method

State-level agricultural data compilation.

Time Range

1999-2014

Geography

Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh.