Dear Maria,

Thanks for your suggestion.
We have taken a binary control variable of whether any person of the household has a membership of rural agricultural cooperatives or not in our every model.
Though the trend of income diversification of farm households in non-farm enterprises in different agroecological zones of rural India is shown (table 1). A trend of rural cooperatives can also be shown and will make sense as well. Thanks for your valuable suggestion.

Regards
Zeeshan

Thanks for your interesting paper that clearly shows the role of diversification within small farms in India. I have also showed this role in a research paper about the Brazilian small farms in the South of the country where the role of rural cooperatives has been decisive to encourage this diversificaiton.

in this sense, I would like you to add some information about the trends and the role of rural cooperatives in India.

Maria