Bangladesh. Parisaṃkhyāna Bibhāga
Bangladesh. Parisaṃkhyāna Byuro
Bangladesh. Parisaṃkhyāna Byuro
Bangladesh. Parisaṃkhyāna Bibhāga
Tim Coelli, Sanzidur Rahman, Colin Thirtle
Applying programming techniques to detailed data for 406 rice farms in 21 villages, for 1997, produces inefficiency measures, which differ substantially from the results of simple yield and unit cost measures. For the Boro (dry) season, mean technical efficiency was 69.4 per cent, allocative efficie...
Mead Cain
Relative to other approaches and emphases -- the value of childrens labor for example -- the potential importance of environmentally and socially determined risk as a source of derived demand for children in poor agrarian settings has been largely overlooked. Using frequency of distress sale of land...
M. Sirajul Islam
Carlo del Ninno, Paul A. Dorosh, Lisa C. Smith
B. L. Turner, Abu Muhammad Shajaat Ali
Bangladesh is dominated by a small-holder agrarian economy under extreme stress. Production shortfalls, increasing economic polarization, and chronic malnutrition are persistent, but major famine has been diverted in part by significant growth in agriculture. This recent history is open to both Malt...
Ashok Gulati, Nicholas Minot, Cecília Delgado, Siddheswar Bora
This chapter describes the growth of high-value agriculture, its direct implications for the restructuring of the agricultural supply chains (including the emergence of contract farming and other forms of vertical coordination) and its indirect implications for the role of small farmers. The chapter...
S. Y. Padmanabhan
Bengal, which prior to partition of India covered the state of West Bengal in India and Bangladesh, suffered from a calamitous famine in 1943, when it was estimated that two miIIion people died of starvation. The author was ap pOinted as Mycologist in Bengal in October 1943 when the famine was at i...
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Timothy J. Krupnik, Olaf Erenstein
There is strong advocacy for agricultural machinery appropriate for smallholder farmers in South Asia. Such 'scale-appropriate' machinery can increase returns to land and labour, although the still substantial capital investment required can preclude smallholder ownership. Increasing machinery deman...
Vishal Dagar, Muhammad Kamran Khan, Rafael Alvarado, Muhammad Usman et al.
Somasundaram Jayaraman, Nishant K. Sinha, Ram C. Dalal, Rattan Lal et al.
Of late, intensive farming for higher food production is often associated with many negative implications for soil systems, such as decline of soil organic matter (SOM), increase in risks of soil erosion by wind and/or water, decline in soil biological diversity, increase in degradation of soil phys...
Sanzidur Rahman