Eirik G. Jansen
Muhammad Humayun Kabir, Ruslan Rainis
V. A. Dyck, B. Thomas
The brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens (Stal) recently increased in abundance and caused severe yield losses in several tropical countries of Asia. It is rather widely distributed but is found mainly in South, Southeast, and East Asia. It damages the rice plant by directly feeding on it and by tra...
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...
Laura Vang Rasmussen, Ingo Graß, Zia Mehrabi, Olivia M. Smith et al.
Agricultural simplification continues to expand at the expense of more diverse forms of agriculture. This simplification, for example, in the form of intensively managed monocultures, poses a risk to keeping the world within safe and just Earth system boundaries. Here, we estimated how agricultural ...
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...
Thomas Reardon, Kevin Z. Chen, Bart Minten, Lourdes Adriano et al.
There is a rapid transformation afoot in the rice value chain in Asia. The upstream is changing quickly-farmers are undertaking capital-led intensification and participating in burgeoning markets for land rental, fertilizer and pesticides, irrigation water, and seed, and shifting from subsistence to...
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.
Sanzidur Rahman
Abstract This article examines the contribution of women’s labour input to productivity and efficiency in crop farming using a large survey dataset of 1,839 households from 16 villages in two agro‐ecological regions of Bangladesh. Results reveal that female labour accounts for a substantial 28% of t...
Sanzidur Rahman
Farmers' awareness of beneficial and harmful effects of pesticides and factors determining use of pesticides were analyzed using survey data from 21 villages in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Pesticide cost accounts for about 7.7% of the gross value of output in cotton, 3.6% in vegetab...
Catherine Lovell
BRAC has become one of the largest indigenous NGOs in the world since its beginnings in 1979. This book contains an overview of BRAC programmes in credit, education, health, and agricultural extension work with poor communities, and how BRAC is organised. It includes: * The Bangladesh context and im...
Bishwajit Ghose
The purpose of this paper is to review the performance of fisheries sector in Bangladesh and the challenges it is facing. Data and information were sourced from the publication of the Department of Fisheries (DoF) and related non-published grey literature. Bangladesh is predominantly an agrarian eco...
Sanzidur Rahman
Farmers' perception of the environmental impacts of modern agricultural technology diffusion and factors determining such awareness were examined using survey data from 21 villages in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Results reveal that farmers are well aware of the adverse environmental...