Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Md. Shajedur Rahaman, Jatish Chandra Biswas, Niaz Md. Farhat Rahman et al.
Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Valerien O. Pede, Jean Balié, Isabelita M. Pabuayon et al.
Purpose Because of the increasing differential between farm and retail prices, the study proposes to investigate the extent of market power in the rice value chain of Bangladesh using advanced econometric techniques. Design/methodology/approach Using a Stochastic Frontier Estimation approach on cros...
Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Md. Shajedur Rahaman, Mou Rani Sarker et al.
Agrarian Bangladesh relies heavily on rice. Since independence, many varieties have been released and targeted to increase productivity, farmers' income, and food security. However, few gained widespread adoption. Moreover, farmers in the border regions are adopting exotic cultivars, and it's gradua...
Niaz Md. Farhat Rahman, Waqas Ahmed Malik, MS Kabir, Md. Azizul Baten et al.
Abstract To assess the efficiency of genetic improvement programs, it is essential to assess the genetic trend in long-term data. The present study estimates the genetic trends for grain yield of rice varieties released between 1970 and 2020 by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute. The yield of th...
Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Md. Shajedur Rahaman, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar et al.
Flood is responsible for the agricultural production scheme and livelihood well-being in Bangladesh. It is the most frequent catastrophe that affects crop production in terms of area coverage and yield. However, a normal flood is beneficial for the ecology and environment. As rice is the most import...
Md Abu Bakr Siddique, Md. Abdus Salam, Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman
This study determines the causes of consumption, compensated, and uncompensated demand for rice using the Linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand System (LA-AIDS) model in Bangladesh. The model was used along with the corrected Stone Price Index. The study’s findings showed that the income elasticity...
Md. Abdullah Aziz, Hasib Us Shahid Shohan, Niaz Md. Farhat Rahman, Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman et al.
Mohammad Ariful Islam, Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Md. Abu Bakar Siddique
This study assesses the impact of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) released modern wet (Aman) season rice variety adoption on farmers‟ well-being in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) data collected by IFPRI were used for this study. The study applied difference-in-di...
Md. Abu Bakr Siddique, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Afroza Chowdhury et al.
This study was an attempt to investigate the economic performance of stress tolerant rice varieties in different abiotic stress prone areas (submergence, drought, and salinity) of Bangladesh. The study used production frontier approach to measure the technical efficiency at the farm level. Benefit-c...
Md. Shajedur Rahaman, Md. Jahangir Kabir, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Mohammad Ariful Islam et al.
This study was carried out to evaluate the performance of BRRI cultivars, identifying criteria and constraints as well as factors influencing the intensity of BRRI cultivars adoption in <i>Aus</i> season on the farm households in Mymensingh district. The data were collected through structured questi...
Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Valerien O. Pede, Jean Balié
Abstract This study investigates asymmetric price transmission (APT) in the rice market in Bangladesh using monthly price series at farm, wholesale, and retail levels from October 2005 to June 2017 in a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model (NARDL). The results indicate a significant asymme...
Niaz Md. Farhat Rahman, Waqas Ahmed Malik, Md. Azizul Baten, MS Kabir et al.
BACKGROUND: Enhancing productivity and profitability and reducing climatic risk are the major challenges for sustaining rice production. Extreme weather can have significant and varied effects on crops, influencing agricultural productivity, crop yields and food security. RESULTS: In this study, a c...
Md. Shajedur Rahaman, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Limon Deb et al.
This study aimed to investigate the cost-benefit per hectare of rice production in the haor region in Bangladesh. For doing so, the multi-stage sampling technique was used to collect cross-sectional data during 2018 from four haor districts producing rice in Bangladesh. To achieve the purpose, a tot...
Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Md Jahangir Kabir, Md. Shajedur Rahaman et al.
Floods in Bangladesh significantly impact rice production, a vital element of food security. While regional flood effects have been extensively studied, the specific impacts on rice, the country’s primary staple, remain underexplored. This study assesses the effects of floods on rice production, ava...
Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Md. Shajedur Rahaman, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Mohammad Ariful Islam
Foreign Direct Investment’s (FDI) contribution to the agricultural share of GDP is a questionable topic in Bangladesh’s current economy. Therefore, this study aims to inspect the effect of FDI inflow in agriculture on the agriculture sector’s contribution to Bangladesh’s economic development. The st...
Md. Shajedur Rahaman, Sadika Haque, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman et al.
The size of the farm is an important factor that reflects the efficient utilization of resources in farming. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate how the farm size affects the cost efficiency of rice production during the Boro season in Bangladesh. In particular, the analysis aims to estimate t...
Md. Jahangir Kabir, MS Kabir, Abdus Salam, Mohammad Ariful Islam et al.
During countrywide lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic wage workers from different parts of the country were encouraged to move to haor areas for harvesting Boro paddy amid risk of community transmission of the virus in late April to early May 2020. This study attempted to delineate the socioeconomic ...
Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Tofazzal Hossain Miah, M. Harun-Ar Rashid
The study explores the effects of controlling saline water intrusion into coastal polder areas of Bangladesh. The study was conducted at the Dacope Upazila of Khulna District (Polder 31) using a predesigned and pretested interview schedule involving 200 farmers. Profitability and undiscounted benefi...
Syed Ariful Haque, Md. Fakhrul Islam, Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Md. Saiful Islam et al.
Fishery sector plays a vital role in the socio-economic development of Bangladesh. In the fish economy of Bangladesh, one of the most flourishing traffic activities is fish marketing. This study was aimed to investigate the fish species availability, supply chain, quality loss, price behavior and co...
Md. Shajedur Rahaman, Md Abdur Rouf Sarkar, Mohammad Chhiddikur Rahman, Enamul Kabir et al.
Bangladesh has made tremendous strides in the development of modern rice varieties as well as boosting domestic rice production up. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the performance, identify the criteria and constraints, as well as find out the drivers influencing the adoption and intensity...