Shyam Kumar Basnet is a Ph.D. student at the Department since February 2011. Shyam works on analyzing economic aspects of agricultural policies at farm level with applications to the European Union.

Key words:farm economics, resources management

Research area

Shyam has an interest in various agricultural and resource economic issues, especially in constrained optimization issues.

Selected publications

Basnet, S.K. (2010). Supply Response Behavior of Nepalese Rice Producers: An Error Correction Model. Journal of Business and Economics, 2 (2), pp: 175 - 198.

Basnet, S.K. and Weikard, H.P. (Supervisors) (2010). Phosphorus Extraction under Changing Population. Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands, (Research Master Thesis).

 Basnet, S.K. and Jadhav, M.S. (2005). Risk Management of Coconut based Cropping System in Maharashtra. Agricultural Economics Research Review, 18, pp: 168.

Miscellaneous

Shyam has a Master Variant in International Development Studies, Wageningen University and Research,  Netherlands (2010), a M. Sc. in Agricultural Economics, Mahatma Phule Agricultural University, India (2006) and a B.Sc. in Agriculture, IAAS, Tribhuvan University, Nepal (2002).

Full CV is available here.