Volume 26, Issue 4, July 2019, Pages 1203–1210
Farzana Yeasmin1, Dilshad Zahan Ethen2, Ismat Ara Begum3, and Fardous Ara Happy4
1 Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
2 Dept. of Agribusiness and Marketing, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
3 Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
4 Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
Original language: English
Copyright © 2019 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The focus of this study is to assess rice production in different category of farms of Bangladesh. The relevant data was collected from secondary source collected by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) under the Village Dynamics Studies in South Asia (VDSA) project. A total of 280, 318, 365 and 349 sample farmers were selected for the years of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively and the selected farmers were categorized into marginal, small, medium and large categories. Descriptive statistics were used to measure the profitability of rice production. In the study areas, rice farming was profitable for the selected years for all category of farmers but large and medium scale farmers received more profit than small and marginal farmers. Per hectare net return from rice production by small farmers was Tk.31324.28 in 2009 and Tk. 21776.97 in 2012 which provides a decreasing picture of profit for them. Cobb-Douglas stochastic cost frontier analysis was used to measure economic efficiencies. The regression result shows that, estimated values of the relevant coefficients i.e., fertilizer cost, machineries cost, human labor cost, seed cost and herbicides cost had positive and significant impact on the gross return of rice production and the coefficient of pesticide was negatively significant. So, there is a scope for increasing return from rice production by increasing human labour, seed, fertilizer, machineries and herbicide uses, since the coefficients of these parameters was positive and significant. The study will help to policy makers for the development of all category rice farmers specially the small and marginal farmers of Bangladesh.
Author Keywords: Rice, Productivity and Bangladesh.
Farzana Yeasmin1, Dilshad Zahan Ethen2, Ismat Ara Begum3, and Fardous Ara Happy4
1 Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
2 Dept. of Agribusiness and Marketing, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
3 Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
4 Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
Original language: English
Copyright © 2019 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The focus of this study is to assess rice production in different category of farms of Bangladesh. The relevant data was collected from secondary source collected by International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) under the Village Dynamics Studies in South Asia (VDSA) project. A total of 280, 318, 365 and 349 sample farmers were selected for the years of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively and the selected farmers were categorized into marginal, small, medium and large categories. Descriptive statistics were used to measure the profitability of rice production. In the study areas, rice farming was profitable for the selected years for all category of farmers but large and medium scale farmers received more profit than small and marginal farmers. Per hectare net return from rice production by small farmers was Tk.31324.28 in 2009 and Tk. 21776.97 in 2012 which provides a decreasing picture of profit for them. Cobb-Douglas stochastic cost frontier analysis was used to measure economic efficiencies. The regression result shows that, estimated values of the relevant coefficients i.e., fertilizer cost, machineries cost, human labor cost, seed cost and herbicides cost had positive and significant impact on the gross return of rice production and the coefficient of pesticide was negatively significant. So, there is a scope for increasing return from rice production by increasing human labour, seed, fertilizer, machineries and herbicide uses, since the coefficients of these parameters was positive and significant. The study will help to policy makers for the development of all category rice farmers specially the small and marginal farmers of Bangladesh.
Author Keywords: Rice, Productivity and Bangladesh.
How to Cite this Article
Farzana Yeasmin, Dilshad Zahan Ethen, Ismat Ara Begum, and Fardous Ara Happy, “Measurement of Farm Productivity of Rice: A Case of Bangladesh,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 1203–1210, July 2019.
