scholarly journals Impact of sharecropping on rice productivity in some areas of Khulna district

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-430
Author(s):  
MF Ahmed ◽  
MM Billah
Keyword(s):  
Production Function ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Optimum Level ◽  
Production Volume ◽  
Function Estimation ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
Fixed Amount ◽  
Rice Productivity ◽  
High Yielding Varieties

The study reveals the effect of sharecropping on rice productivity in some selected areas of Khulna District in the South-West region of Bangladesh. Access to land for the landless farmer is governed by informal land tenure arrangement, which in turn affects the productivity of the rice farm. In exploring the debate on sharecropping and farm efficiency, the present study has been conducted to assess the effect of sharecropping on rice productivity. During June 2014, a field survey was conducted by using a semi-structured questionnaire in two villages of Khulna District where sharecropping is one of the dominant land tenure arrangements in rice farming. A Cobb-Douglas production function estimation showed that type of land ownership, use of fertilizers, human labor, and modern variety (MV) including hybrid seed and high yielding varieties (HYVs) of seed had the positive and significant influence on rice production. There was a significant mean difference between the sharecroppers and the owner farmers regarding their volume of rice production. The production volume of the owner farmers was significantly higher by around 781 kg ha-1. The study result from the production function revealed that on an average owner farmers’ output was significantly higher by 10% than that of the sharecroppers. The study also observed that higher land rent in form of a fixed amount of cash or a higher crop share demotivated the sharecroppers to supply the optimum level of input and to use the land intensively. The result implied that the sharecroppers are inefficient compared to the landowners. Therefore, it is recommended that sharing an equitable production cost and a justifiable crop sharing structure might be the better options to motivate the sharecropper to become more efficient concerning their volume of production.Bangladesh J. Agril. Res. 43(3): 417-430, September 2018

scholarly journals The Identification of Rice Varieties Used in Central Sulawesi

2021 ◽  
Vol 232 ◽  
pp. 03013
Author(s):  
Femmi Norfahmi ◽  
Komalawati Komalawati ◽  
Muh. Afif Juradi ◽  
Mardiana Mardiana ◽  
F.F. Munier
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Rice Varieties ◽  
Local Varieties ◽  
Rice Productivity ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
High Yielding Varieties ◽  
Central Sulawesi

Central Sulawesi’s rice productivity in 2019 was lower compared to that in 2018. One of the problems for the low productivity of paddy in Central Sulawesi is the application of low quality of seeds. Ministry of Agriculture through Central Sulawesi AIAT has introduced a numbers of new high yielding varieties (HYV) to increase rice production and productivity. To support the dissemination of new HYV, it is important to study the rice varieties that mostly used by farmers in Central Sulawesi. The objectives of this study are to identify the rice varieties and the preferred characteristics of rice varieties that farmers usually used in Central Sulawesi. This study used primary and secondary data. Data were analyzed descriptively and presented in tables and graphs. The results show that most farmers in Central Sulawesi use Mekongga, Ciherang, and Cisantana varieties, and local varieties such as Peluncur, Dewi, Ntabone and others. Farmers generally prefer varieties which tend to produce higher yields and resistant to pests and diseases. To maintain the availability of the varieties in Central Sulawesi, it is important to train farmers to become breeders.

scholarly journals Effect of Agricultural Credit Access on Rice Productivity: Evidence from the Irrigated Area of Anambe Basin, Senegal

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Mouhamadou Foula Diallo ◽  
Jiajun Zhou ◽  
Hamidullah Elham ◽  
De Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Analysis ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Agricultural Credit ◽  
Credit Access ◽  
Frontier Analysis ◽  
Rice Productivity ◽  
Rice Farmers ◽  
The Impact

Rice is an important staple food in many developing countries, especially in Senegal. However, rice production in Senegal only meet 20% of the domestic demand largely due to the poor performance of rice farmers and low productivity. Access to agricultural credit has strong impacts on the technical efficiency of farmers and would promote inputs and new technology adoption. But that is not clear enough in previous studies. This study investigates the impact of agricultural credit access on rice productivity and technical efficiency with 260 random sampled rice farmers from Anambe basin in Senegal. The Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) was adopted to estimate the technical efficiency. The results indicate that the inputs of rice production, including labor, pesticide, herbicides and fertilizer, have significant impacts on rice productivity. Furthermore, the results present that the average efficiency is of 0.813 and the inefficiency estimation model reveals that the influences of agricultural credit access, gender, education, ethnicity, use of improved seed and land tenure system on technical inefficiency of rice production are significant. Particularly, for the access to agricultural credit, rice farmers without agricultural credit would get 3.8% higher production inefficiency. The farmers with access to credit yield 37.32% higher rice production than their counterparts. Therefore, our study provides strong empirical evidence to promote agricultural credit in rice production.

Estimation of Rice Production Function in Rajbari District, Bangladesh: an Econometric Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-130
Author(s):  
Md. Yahia Bapari ◽  
Md. Awal Kabir Joy
Keyword(s):  
Production Function ◽  
Function Analysis ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Labor Costs ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Ordinary Least Square ◽  
Sample Technique ◽  
Production Form ◽  
High Yielding Varieties

The study was undertaken to estimate the profitability and productivity of rice for local and high yielding varieties in Rajbari district of Bangladesh. To this end, random sample technique was used to collect data from 193 rice producers with the aid of well-structured questionnaire and Cobb–Douglas production form was chosen to assess the rice production functions. The ordinary least square (OLS) method was minutely applied to the data set availed from different groups of farmers namely only Local Variety (LV), only High Yielding Variety (HYV) and both variety user farmers. The Empirical result obtained from production function analysis considering only LV user farmers showed that rent of land, seed, labour, fertilizer and irrigation costs had positively effected on the gross return of rice cultivation while insecticide and ploughing costs work negatively. In the case of only HYV users, the rent of land, fertilizer, insecticide, ploughing and irrigation costs were positively related, and seed and labor costs were inversely related with rice production. Results in the case of both variety user farmers showed that labor, fertilizer, and irrigation costs of LV and rent of land, ploughing and irrigation costs of HYV acted positively while rent of land, seed, insecticide and ploughing costs of LV and seed, labor, fertilizer and insecticide costs of HYV worked inversely in producing rice. Results also showed that most of the farmers produced rice in the rational stage (stage – II) of the production function over the study area. All results emphasized that irrigation cost is the key variable which plays a significant role in producing more rice in the study area. Finally, some suggestions are made towards increasing the volume of rice production in Rajbari district.  

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Imitation Potential of IT Companies Using the Cobb-Douglas Production Function

Vestnik NSUEM ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 130-142
Author(s):  
E. N. Akerman ◽  
A. A. Mikhalchuk ◽  
V. V. Spitsyn ◽  
N. O. Chistyakova
Keyword(s):  
Production Function ◽  
Cluster Model ◽  
Production Functions ◽  
Production Volume ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Factor Production ◽  
Fixed Assets ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Douglas Production Function

The relevance of the study has been determined by the acceleration of innovation growth, which encourages companies to use imitation strategies in response to disruptive technological changes.The study used the Cobb-Douglas production function to evaluate the effectiveness of the used production factors of Russian IT companies. A high-quality 3-cluster model of IT companies was built, as well as highly significant two-factor production functions of Cobb-Douglas, which made it possible to identify the contribution of the main factors (wage and fixed assets) to the production volume (revenue) for each cluster.

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