Designation:
Scientist
Division/Section:
Division of Social Sciences and Training
Specialisation:
Agricultural Economics
Qualification:
Ph.D
Research Accomplishments:
(During the Period of 2019-2023)
Research:
- Modelling dynamics of institutional credit to agriculture in India (PI)
- Prospects of Irrigation in India: Trends, Determinants, and Impact on Agricultural Productivity (Co-PI)
- Crop diversification: Pattern, determinants and its implications on nutritional security (Co-PI)
- Forecasting onion prices using deep learning techniques (Co-PI)
Teaching:
Offered various courses for Masters and Phd students of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extention and Agricultural Statistics of ICAR-IARI PG school in each semester/trimester during 2017-23
Training:
- Course coordinator for 21 days CAFT training on "Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling and Forecasting Agricultural Data”.
- Delivered many invited lectures under different trainings of ICAR institutes, SAUs and Private universities
Varieties / Technologies Developed:
- Identification of structural breaks in the agricultural credit series and evolution of criteria for ranking of different phases of growth in the agricultural credit under garret ranking framework
- Tailored panel regression model for quantification of major drivers of institutional credit to agriculture and drivers of groundwater exploitation in India
- Developed methodology/ standard procedure for estimation of demand for direct agricultural credit by districts
- Developed a unique methodology for classification of districts into Groundwater safe and unsafe districts in India.
- Methodology for estimation of the crop diversification index by employing the Simpson index of diversification in the crop sector.
- Developed malnutrition index to assess the district wise nutritional status
- Mapping and classification of districts based on exposure to agricultural credit, groundwater safety and nutritional status
- Developed simulation model to decipher the conditional distribution of undernutrition index based on the conditional value of diversification index
- Innovative modelling to assess the impact of crop diversification on the nutritional status
- Constructed perceived effectiveness index to measure effectiveness of trainings conducted by Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Publications:
(Best 10/High Impact)
- Sagar, M., Mahadevaiah, GS., Bhat, S., Harishkumar, HV. and Kiresur, V. (2022). Climate variability and its impact on cropping pattern and agricultural GDP in central dry zone of Karnataka, India. Mausam, 73 (2), 251–262. (NAAS rating = 6.64)
- Vyas, AK., Jain, NK., Mohapatra, T., Singh, P., Satyapriya, Paul, S., HarishKumar, HV. and Ray, M. (2020). Assessment of effectiveness of trainings conducted by ICAR. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 90 (5), 174-179. (NAAS rating: 6.25)
- Shivaswamy, GP., Raghavendra, KJ., Anuja, AR., Singh, KN., Rajesh, T. and HarishKumar, HV. 2020. Impact of institutional credit on agricultural productivity in India: A time series analysis. Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 90 (2), 412–7. (NAAS rating: 6.25)
- Tiwari, U., Singh, A., Kumar, P., Venkatesh, P., Singh, R., Kumar, A., Bisen, J. and HarishKumar, HV. (2022). Status and Changes in Composition of Agricultural Household’s Income in India. Indian Journal of Extension Education, 59(1), 59–64. (NAAS rating = 5.95)
- Chinapolaiah, A., Parthvee, RD., Manjesh, GN., Thondaiman, V. and HarishKumar, HV. (2019). Vegetative propagation of Adhatoda vasica a medicinal plant: effect of indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) on stem cuttings. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. 8(5): 1176-1180 (NAAS rating: 5.21)
- Harishkumar, HV., Raghavendra, DV. and Singh KN. (2022). Land use dynamics across rural-urban transition of Bengaluru. Economic affairs, 67 (2), 63-68. (NAAS rating: 5.08)
- Sagar, M., Mahadevaiah, GS., Bhat, S. and HarishKumar, HV. (2018). Rainfall Variability and its Influence on Agricultural GDP in Central Dry Zone of Karnataka: An Econometric Analysis. Economic Affairs, 63 (2): 01-05. (NAAS rating: 4.82)
- Rajesh, T., Shivaswamy, GP., Anuja, AR., Singh, KN., Shekhawat, RS. and Harishkumar, HV. (2020). Public expenditure on agricultural inputs and farm support services in India – An overview. Annals of Agricultural Research. 41(4), 418-423. (NAAS rating = 4.01)
- Harishkumar HV., Umesh, KB., Satishkumar, M. and Murali, DN. (2016). Livelihood Security of Farm households Under Different Farming Systems in Kolar District of Karnataka- An Economic Analysis. International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Biotechnology, 9 (2): 313-322.
- HarishKumar, HV., Venu, BN., Umesh, KB. AND Naveen, V. (2014). Economics of Farming Systems in Kolar district of Karnataka, India. Research Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 5 (4): 738-743
Book Chapter
- Roy, M., Shivaswamy, GP., and Harish Kumar, HV. (2019). Statistical
and machine learning techniques for modeling and forecasting agricultural
data. Training Manual -I, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi. Pages 265 - Roy, M., Shivaswamy, GP., and Harish Kumar, HV. (2019). Statistical
and machine learning techniques for modeling and forecasting agricultural
data. Training Manual -II, ICAR-IASRI, New Delhi. Pages 248 - HarishKumar, HV., Rajesh, T., Shivaswamy, GP. and Anuja, AR. (2019). Linear programming: concept and its application in agriculture.in Nikam, V., Jhajhria, A. and Pal, S (ed) Quantitative Methods for social sciences, ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi. 219-226.
- Anuja, AR., Singh, KN., Shivaswamy, GP, Rajesh, T. and HarishKumar, HV. (2019). Instrumental variable estimation, in Nikam, V., Jhajhria, A. and Pal, S (ed) Quantitative Methods for social sciences, ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi. 219-226.
- Rajesh, T., HarishKumar, HV., Anuja, AR., and Shivaswamy GP.(2019).Autoregressive and distributed-lag models, Quantitative Methods for Social Sciences, published by ICAR-NIAP, New Delhi.
- HarishKumar HV. and ChinnappaReddy B. V. (2021).Capital formation across the rural-urban interface of Bengaluru North: An economic analysis". Springer Urban Book Series.
- AnanthaRama A., SanthoshGowda GB., Niranjana Kumar B., Mnajunatha B., HarishKumar HV. and Hurkadli MS. (2016). Objective Agriculture. Rachana publishers. (ISBN:978-93-5265-450-5)
Awards & Recognitions:
- Invited speaker, Indo-German conference on rural-urban transition (International conference) held at University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore
- Recipient of Gold medal at M.Sc (Agri) and PhD(Agri)
- Awardee of DST-Inspire Fellowship