scholarly journals Choice of Rice Production Practices in Ghana: A Comparison of Willingness to Pay and Preference Space Estimates

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 799-819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Owusu Coffie ◽  
Michael P. Burton ◽  
Fiona L. Gibson ◽  
Atakelty Hailu
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Production Practices ◽  
Preference Space

scholarly journals ‘B-M MODEL’ FOR FARMERS’ KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN INCREASING RICE PRODUCTION

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-45
Author(s):  
BK Mahalder ◽  
◽  
MB Ahmed ◽  
H Bhandari ◽  
MU Salam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Rice Yield ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Practice Change ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Production Practices ◽  
The Difference

Quantifying knowledge on agriculture can have many benefits to stakeholders. While many knowledge-based systems exist in modern days for farmers’ decision support, specific models are lacking on how knowledge traits can impact on agricultural production systems. This study employed modelling technique, supported by field data, to provide a clear understanding and quantifying how knowledge management in production practices can contribute to rice productivity in the environmentally stressed southwest Bangladesh. This research accounted for ‘Boro’ rice as the target crop and ‘BRRI dhan28’ as the test variety. The ‘B-M Model’ was developed following the principle and procedure from published literature, ‘brainstorming’ and data from field surveys. Three knowledge management traits (KMT) were defined and quantified as the inputs of the model. Those are: self-experience and observation (SEO), extension advisory services (EAS) and accessed information sources (AIS). The yield influencing process (YIP), the intermediate state variable of the model, was deduced by accounting for the two dominant agronomic practices, seedling age for transplanting and triple superphosphate (TSP) application. ‘Knowledge drives farmers’ practice change which in turn influences yield’ was composed as the theoretical framework of the ‘B-M Model’. The model performed strongly against an independently collected field data set. Across the 180 farmers’ data, the average relative rice yield (RRY) predicted by the model (0.705) and observed in the field (0.716) was close (root mean squared deviation (RMSD) = 0.018). The difference between predicted and observed RRY was not statistically different (LSD = 0.03), indicating the model fully captured the field data. A regression of predicted and observed RRY explained 96% variance in observation, further proving the model’s strength in estimating RRY in a wider range of farmers’ rice yield. In a normative analysis, the practicality and usefulness of the model to stakeholders were simulated for the understanding of how much achievable yield could be expected by changing farmers’ knowledge pool (the sum of three KMT) on rice production practices, and at what combination(s) of KMT to be considered at strategic hierarchy to materialize a targeted achievable yield. To the best of the knowledge, a model quantifying rice yield in relation to knowledge management trait does not exist in literature. Upon successful testing under diverse yield scenarios using multiple and sophisticated statistical tools that enhanced the credibility of the model, it is concluded that the model has the potential to be used for identifying quantitative pathways of farmers’ knowledge acquisition for practice change leading to improved productivity of rice in the southwest region of Bangladesh.

Problem faced by rice farmers in the adoption of rice production practices in Sahibganj district of Jharkhand

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
pp. 54-56
Author(s):  
Maya Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
New Production ◽  
Rice Farmers ◽  
Extension System ◽  
Main Crop ◽  
Production Practices ◽  
Perceived Constraints

The study was conducted in Sahibganj district of Jharkhand. There are 9 blocks in Sahibganj district. Five blocks are selected for study, namely Sahibganj, Rajmahal, Barharwa, Taljhari and Udhwa. All these block cultivated paddy as a main crop. Using simple random sampling technique, twenty five farmers were selected from each of the five selected villages from each block, making total 125 respondents for the study. The study has clearly brought out that the major constraints perceived by farmers were technical constraints related to non availability of inputs at time, financial constraints related to high cost of inputs, and extension constraints related to lack of training on new production technology of paddy. In order to improve rice production and overcome the perceived constraints, rice growers suggested the construction and regular maintenance of adequate rice farming infrastructure, particularly those related to irrigation and drainage, improvement of extension system through training, demonstration, information through different channels), availability of inputs at reasonable price and the provision of crop insurance.

An Actual Purchasing Experiment for Investigating the Effects of Eco-Information on Consumers’ Environmental Consciousness and Attitudes Towards Agricultural Products

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 688-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Aoki ◽  
◽  
Kenju Akai ◽  
Kiyokazu Ujiie ◽  
Takeshi Shinmura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Environmental Consciousness ◽  
Experiment Method

This study investigates the effects of eco-information on the environmental consciousness and attitudes of consumers towards agricultural products. We focus on Japanese rice to provide recommendations to protect the Ibis, an endangered bird in Japan, and evaluate how Ecologically Conscious Consumer Behavior (ECCB) affect consumers’ Willingness To Pay (WTP) via the choice experiment method. Participants are provided with the necessary eco-information pertaining to rice production, and are required to taste and purchase the rice. The results indicate that consumers with high ECCB display higher WTP after they are provided with the necessary eco-information pertaining to rice production.

scholarly journals Consumer willingness to pay for beef grown using climate friendly production practices

Food Policy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 93-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaogu Li ◽  
Kimberly L. Jensen ◽  
Christopher D. Clark ◽  
Dayton M. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Production Practices

scholarly journals Survey of rice production practices and perception of weedy red rice (Oryza sativa f. spontanea) in Taiwan – ERRATUM

Weed Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Yung-Fen Huang ◽  
Dong-Hong Wu ◽  
Chih-Lu Wang ◽  
Pei-Rong Du ◽  
Chih-Yun Cheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oryza Sativa ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Red Rice ◽  
Production Practices ◽  
Weedy Red Rice

scholarly journals Evaluation and prioritization of rice production practices and constraints under temperate climatic conditions using Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP)

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. e0909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shabir A. Mir ◽  
Theagarajan Padma
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Planting Density ◽  
Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Decision Outcomes ◽  
Decision Choices ◽  
Production Practices ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Due to overwhelming complex and vague nature of interactions between multiple factors describing agriculture, Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods are widely used from farm to fork to facilitate systematic and transparent decision support, figure out multiple decision outcomes and equip decision maker with confident decision choices in order to choose best alternative. This research proposes a Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) based decision support to evaluate and prioritize important factors of rice production practices and constraints under temperate climatic conditions and provides estimate of weightings, which measure relative importance of critical factors of the crop under biotic, abiotic, socio-economic and technological settings. The results envisage that flood, drought, water logging, late sali, temperature and rainfall are important constraints. However, regulating transplantation time; maintaining planting density; providing training to the educated farmers; introducing high productive varieties like Shalimar Rice-1 and Jhelum; better management of nutrients, weeds and diseases are most important opportunities to enhance rice production in the region. Therefore, the proposed system supplements farmers with precise decision information about important rice production practices, opportunities and constraints.

scholarly journals Socio-Technical Changes for Sustainable Rice Production: Rice Husk Amendment, Conservation Irrigation, and System Changes

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. K. Runkle ◽  
Angelia L. Seyfferth ◽  
Matthew C. Reid ◽  
Matthew A. Limmer ◽  
Beatriz Moreno-García ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Toxic Metal ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Rice Husks ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
Production Practices ◽  
Field Production

Rice is a staple food and primary source of calories for much of the world. However, rice can be a dietary source of toxic metal(loid)s to humans, and its cultivation creates atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions and requires high water use. Because rice production consumes a significant amount of natural resources and is a large part of the global agricultural economy, increasing its sustainability could have substantial societal benefits. There are opportunities for more sustainable field production through a combination of silicon (Si) management and conservation irrigation practices. As a Si-rich soil amendment, rice husks can limit arsenic and cadmium uptake, while also providing plant vigor in drier soil conditions. Thus, husk addition and conservation irrigation may be more effective to attenuate the accumulation of toxic metal(loid)s, manage water usage and lower climate impacts when implemented together than when either is implemented separately. This modified field production system would take advantage of rice husks, which are an underutilized by-product of milled rice that is widely available near rice farm sites, and have ~10% Si content. Husk application could, alongside alternate wetting and drying or furrow irrigation management, help resolve multiple sustainability challenges in rice production: (1) limit arsenic and cadmium accumulation in rice; (2) minimize greenhouse gas emissions from rice production; (3) decrease irrigation water use; (4) improve nutrient use efficiency; (5) utilize a waste product of rice processing; and (6) maintain plant-accessible soil Si levels. This review presents the scientific basis for a shift in rice production practices and considers complementary rice breeding efforts. It then examines socio-technical considerations for how such a shift in production practices could be implemented by farmers and millers together and may bring rice production closer to a bio-circular economy. This paper's purpose is to advocate for a changed rice production method for consideration by community stakeholders, including producers, millers, breeders, extension specialists, supply chain organizations, and consumers, while highlighting remaining research and implementation questions.

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