IITKGP

Research Areas

  • Public Finance and Rural Development
  • AgriValue Chain Financing and Management
  • Agricultural Marketing and Price Risk
  • Performance Management of MFIs
  • ImpactAssessment of Development Projects
My research area comprises intersection of Advanced Econometric Analysis, Experiment/Quasi Experiment Design, Big data, AI & ML and its use in Rural and Agricultural Finance, Development Policies and Sustainable Agribusiness and Rural Development.
My research focus includes following domain:

  • -Fintech in Agribusiness and Rural Development-FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Inclusion, Digital Finance and Rural Economy, Rural Household Finance, Advanced Econometrics
    -Big Data, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence-Farm/Non Farm Resource Optimization, Application of Big data Modeling, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence in Agribusiness and Sustainable Rural Development
    -Rural and Agricultural Development Policies-Data Driven analysis and Policy Advocacy, Experiment/Randomized Control Trial (RCT) and Quasi-Experiment Research Design for Impact Assessments of Development Policies
    -Performance Management of Financial Institutions;-Advanced Benchmarking Techniques and Performance Management of Banking and NBFCs, Role of Social-Network Modeling in Micro Credit Institutions, Quantitative Research Design for Risk Management in Banking and NBFCs
Research group/lab:https://arflab.co.in/
  • Producer organizations in the last 25 years: a bibliometric analysis and meta-review of the literature by Bhunia S., Singh P.K. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12 - (2025)
  • Determinants of institutional agricultural credit access and its linkage with farmer satisfaction in India: a moderated-mediation analysis by Dey S., Singh P.K., Mhaskar M.D. Agricultural Finance Review 83 211-241 (2023)
  • Role of market participation on smallholder vegetable farmers' wellbeing: Evidence from matching approach in Eastern India by Dey S., Singh P.K. Agribusiness - (2023)
  • Market participation, market impact and marketing efficiency: an integrated market research on smallholder paddy farmers from Eastern India by Dey S., Singh P. K. Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies. - (2023)
  • Determination of Factors Affecting the Adoption of Integrated Farming System in Dryland Areas of Southern India by Using Supervised Learning Techniques by Kandasamy S. U., Singh P. K., Swain D. K. Journal of Asian and African Studies - (2022)
  • Determination of Factors Affecting the Adoption of Integrated Farming System in Dryland Areas of Southern India by Using Supervised Learning Techniques by Kandasamy S.U.L., Singh P.K., Swain D.K. Journal of Asian and African Studies 59 1211-1230 (2024)
  • Application of fuzzy DEA and machine learning algorithms in efficiency estimation of paddy producers of rural Eastern India by Nandy A., Singh P.K. Benchmarking 28 229-248 (2021)
  • Farm efficiency estimation using a hybrid approach of machine-learning and data envelopment analysis: Evidence from rural eastern India by Nandy A., Singh P.K. Journal of Cleaner Production 267 - (2020)
  • Do socially motivated self-help groups perform better? Exploring determinants of micro-credit groups performance in Eastern India by Pal A., Singh P. K. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 1-28 (2020)
  • Co-Principal Investigator

Ph. D. Students

Bhabendra Kumar Dey

Area of Research: Digitization and Sustainability of Community Based Financial Systems

Kripamay Baishnab

Area of Research: Agricultural Productivity Management

Saugat Das

Area of Research: Finance for Sustainable Rural & Agricultural Development