Israt J. Shelley, Misuzu Takahashi‐Nosaka, Mana Kano‐Nakata, Mohammad Shamsul Haque et al.
Bangladesh has an agrarian economy in which rice is the dominant crop. Rice is the staple food, reflected in the high per capita rice consumption in this country. The nutritional demand of the majority of people is met with rice. Over its long history, rice production in Bangladesh has gradually cha...
Mohammed Rahmatullah, Abu Noman, Md Shahadat Hossan, Md. Harun-Or-Rashid et al.
Willem van Schendel
This paper deals with socio-cultural innovation in the hills of southeastern Bangladesh. Outsiders have always been struck by the ethnic diversity of this area. The literature—written mainly by British civil servants, Bengali men of letters, and European anthropologists—presents a picture of twelve ...
Sanzidur Rahman, Ruhul Salim
Abstract This study applies the Färe–Primont index to calculate total factor productivity (TFP) indices for agriculture in 17 regions of Bangladesh covering a 61‐year period (1948–2008). It decomposes the TFP index into six finer components (technical change, technical‐, scale‐ and mix‐efficiency ch...
Ben Rogaly, Barbara Harriss‐White, Sugata Bose
Introduction - Ben Rogaly, Barbara Harriss-White and Sugata Bose Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in West Bengal and Bangladesh PART ONE: AGRICULTURAL GROWTH, POVERTY AND WELL-BEING Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Structure in Bengal - Sugata Bose An Historical Overview Agricultural Growth a...
Paul A. Dorosh
Mohammed Rahmatullah, Abdulmahdi A. Hasan, W Parvin, M Moniruzzaman et al.
The Santals form the largest tribal community in northern Bangladesh reside primarily in Rajshahi and Rangpur Divisions, where they live in the districts of Rajshahi, Rangpur, Thakurgaon, Dinajpur, and Panchagarh. Although they are fast losing their traditional medicinal practices, they still have t...
Eirik G. Jansen
Derek Byerlee
Abstract Recent trends in the productivity of South Asia's irrigated cropping systems are reviewed with emphasis on the large, densely populated Indo‐Gangetic plains of Pakistan and India and parts of Bangladesh, where wheat is an important crop. Technical and institutional problems emerging in thes...
C.R. Dela Cruz, C. Lightfoot, Barry A. Costa‐Pierce, V. R. Carangal et al.
Joint proceedings of two international workshops on rice-fish farming systems research and development û one held in Ubon, Thailand, on 23-27 October 1988; and the other on 23-27 October 1989 in Nueva Ecija, Philippines; gathering country overviews, production systems, economic and biological intera...
Sachin Dhanda, Ashok Yadav, Dharam Bir Yadav, Bhagirath Singh Chauhan
The rice-wheat cropping system (RWCS) is the backbone of Indian farming, especially in the north-western region. But continuous adoption of the RWCS in northwest India has resulted in major challenges and stagnation in the productivity of this system. Additionally, the Indo-Gangetic Plains of Pakist...
Shriniwas Gautam, Pepijn Schreinemachers, Mohammed Nasir Uddin, Ramasamy Srinivasan
This study quantifies the impact of training vegetable farmers in integrated pest management (IPM) in Bangladesh. Data come from a random sample of 300 trained and 300 non-trained farmers producing either bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) or eggplant (Solanum melongena L.). Propensity score matc...
Muhammad Jawad Nasim, SM Shahidullah, Abhijit Saha, MA Muttaleb et al.
Agricultural land use and distribution of cultivated crops expressed in cropping pattern (CP) constitute the base for increasing produtivity. An in-depth study was conducted on the existing CPs of Bangladesh in each and every upazila (sub-districts) using semi structured questionnaire and data valid...
Osmani Gani, Elias Hossain
This paper explores the market participation decision of smallholder farmers in Bangladesh and tries to sort out the most important factors that influence smallholder farmers' decision to participate in the output market to sell their produce in Bangladesh. To examine the relationship between the sm...
Shapan Chandra Majumder, B. K. Bala, Fatimah Mohamed Arshad, M. A. Haque et al.