Pricing of Ecosystem Services in Agriculture: A Basis of Crop Insurance

Dr. Pratap Bhattacharyya is currently working as ICAR-National Fellow and Principal Scientist at ICAR-NRRI, Cuttack, Odisha, India. He has done his MSc and PhD from IARI, New Delhi, India. His fields of specialization are climate change, carbon dynamics, GHGs emission-mitigation, resource conservation technologies and microbial diversity in rice. He is Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India (FNAAS); Fellow of IASWC, ARRW and WAST. He received ICAR-LBS young scientist award; Dr K J Tejwani award; Mosaic Foundation award; Certificate of Excellence on Eddy covariance from UGA, USA.  He has published more than 150 research papers, 6 books, 20 book chapters, and popular articles. He has guided 5 PhD and 8 MSc students. Dr. Priyabrata Santra is currently working as Principal Scientist in ICAR-CAZRI, India. He obtained his Masters in Agricultural Physics from IARI, New Delhi and PhD in Soil Physics / Hydrology from IIT,Kharagpur. He visited International Centre on Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and was awarded with Junior Associate (Soil Physics) of ICTP. Dr. Santra worked as visiting scientists at International Soil Research and Information Centre (ISRIC) at Wageningen, Netherland. He was awarded with FAST Track research grant from DST, Govt of India. He received ICAR-LBS Young Scientist award. He is working on natural resources management, digital soil mapping and use of renewable energy on agriculture. He published 64 research papers in reputed international/national journals, three edited books, two authored books and two research bulletins.Dr. Debashis Mandal is currently working as ICAR-National Fellow at ICAR-IISWC, Dehradun. He received the PhD degree in soil science and agricultural chemistry from IARI, New Delhi. His research interests comprise assessment and monitoring of soil erosion, soil sustainability, land degradation and reclamations processes, and land degradation induced losses of productivity and ecosystem services. Dr. Mandal worked as a visiting scientist at CMASC, at Ohio State University, Columbus, USA and conducted research with Prof. Rattan Lal. He published more than 70 peer reviewed articles in scientific journals and organized several national and international conferences on soil and water conservation.Dr. B Mondal is working as Principal Scientist at ICAR-National Rice Research Institute (NRRI), India. He obtained his PhD in Agricultural Economics from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He visited Fort Collins, USA as an expert in the Workshop on “Threat and Benefit Assessment Methodologies” for reactive nitrogen as a part of ‘Towards International Nitrogen Management System (INMS)’ program. He is working as Associate Editor of Journal Oryza. His areas of expertise are resource economics, impact analysis, on-farm evaluation of agricultural technologies. He has more than 60 national and international research publications and handled more than 20 research projects.

• 1 Concept and approaches of ecosystem services in agriculture.- 2 Pricing of agricultural products, soil, and water management.- 3 Pricing of soil and water conservation in agriculture.- 4 Pricing of carbon sequestration and environmental regulation.- 5 Pricing of renewable energy-based applications in agriculture.- 6 Crop insurance based on payment of ecosystem services.