| Year | 2025 |
| Volume/Issue/Review Month | Volume-XVIII | Issue-II | Jul.-Dec. |
| Title | Nexus Between Foreign Direct Investment and Agriculture Sector: A Bibliometric Analysis of Scopus Database |
| Authors | Dr. Sanjay Kumar Patel, Devashish Joshi, Prof. Praveen Sahu |
| Broad area | Finance |
| Abstract | Foreign direct investment (FDI) has enormous potential to incentivise the enhancement of the agriculture sector. The introduction of FDI in the agriculture sector plays a crucial role in advancing agriculture productivity, technology, and resources. The present study aims to provide deep insight into the synchronization between FDI and the agriculture sector by using bibliometric analysis following the PRISMA protocol technique to evaluate the 162 pertinent documents retrieved from the Scopus database. Biblioshiny and Vos Viewer applications were used to identify the most prominent authors, nations, sources, publications, themes, citations, keywords, collaboration networks, and bibliographic coupling. The findings depicted that Dhahri S, Jorgenson A K, and Omri A. are the most productive and the top cited authors according to h_index in this domain. Sustainability is the most productive and top-cited source. ‘South China Agricultural University’ has published the highest number of documents, and China is the most productive nation. The outcome of the co-word analysis reveals the trending themes in this field, which are foreign direct investment, agriculture, FDI, agriculture production, food security, economic growth, sustainable development, foreign investment, etc. Furthermore, this study identified research hotspots in existing studies using keyword analysis and network analysis and provided future research directions related to them. The findings are intended to offer academicians detailed insight into existing research in the emerging field of FDI and the agriculture sector and recommend a potential roadmap for future research. |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.63340/SAMT/10000002 |
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