Land mis-allocation and industrial development: Dr. Kunal Dasgupta

Although a large share of land in India is used for cultivation, large tracts of this are unproductive and produce low crop yields. In this article in Ideas for India, a premier economic policy portal, Dr. Kunal Dasgupta, faculty in the Economics area, and doctoral student Rahul Rao at IIMB, explain their calculations to determine the minimum amount of land that would be required to meet the outputs for a set of crops. They argue that optimising land allocation can release millions of hectares of land for non-agricultural purposes, while also ensuring that food security remains unaffected.