Raya Das is a Fellow at ICRIER, New Delhi. Her research focuses on public policy in agriculture and allied activities, with special emphasis on markets, credit, land and labour relations, technology adoption, post-harvest loss, and the livelihood sustainability of farmers. In these domains, she has published twelve peer-reviewed journals, one book, working papers, policy briefs, and op-eds. She earned her Ph.D. from Centre for the Study on Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, with a thesis titled “Agrarian Dynamics and Organisation of Production in West Bengal.” She also holds an M.Phil. from JNU, where her dissertation examined “Variation in Productivity, Farm Income and Subsistence among Agricultural Households in India,” based on the Situation Assessment Survey of Farmers.
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Journal papers:
Das, R., Chanda, B., Krishna, G., & Gulati, A. (2024). Transforming agricultural trading and commerce in India: Role of e-NAM and potential of digital trade. Agricultural Economics Research Review, 37(2), 165-181.
Das, R., Roy, R., Gupta, S., Bordoloi, S., Kumar, R., Mohan, R., & Gulati, A. (2024, October). Price Dynamics and Value Chain of Fruits in India: A Study of Grapes, Bananas and Mangoes (RBI Working Paper Series No. 6, pp. 1–62). Reserve Bank of India.
Gulati, Ashok. Das, Raya. Gupta, Sanchit. Prasad, Manish (2023). “Tackling Food Inflation”. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol 58. Issue 44.
Das, Raya and Srivastava, Ravi. (2021) “Income inequality among agricultural households in India: A Regression-Based Decomposition Analysis” Review of Development Economics. Vol 25. Issue 3.
Das, Raya (2020). “Farm-Size and Productivity Debate in Indian Agriculture after Five Decades of Green-Revolution.” Economic and Political Weekly. Special Article.
Kumar, Anjani; Das, Raya; Aditya, K. S.; Bathla, Seema; and Jha, Girish K. (2020) “Examining institutional credit access among agricultural households in Eastern India: Trends, patterns and determinants.” Agricultural Finance Review.
Das, Raya (2020). “Minimum support price in India: what determines farmers’ access?” Agricultural Economic Research Review ISSN /0974-0279
Das, Raya. (2017). “Raising farm income: what does a Simultaneous Quantile Regression Approach tell?” Agricultural Economic Research Review ISSN 0971-3441.
