Sandip Mitra, Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Rasmus Nielsen
The aquaculture sector is a capital intensive production process where access to credit is helpful in order to develop and manage farms in developing countries. Nevertheless, a supply of credit is often not readily available, which is creating credit constraint situations. This study investigates ho...
Most Nilufa Khatun, Sandip Mitra, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker
<abstract> <p>Limited access to financial services is considered as a vital bottleneck for curbing poverty in Bangladesh. Digital technology such as mobile banking can contribute to accelerate people's access to finance but did not receive proper attention before COVID-19. This study int...
Sandip Mitra, Most Nilufa Khatun, Md. Masudul Haque Prodhan, Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan
This study investigated the effects of the attributes of capture and culture fishes on consumer preferences, willingness to pay and market price. A total of 138 consumers for capture and culture fishes were selected under this study. Likert scale was employed to understand the consumer perceptions a...
Noor A Arefin Shawon, Md. Masudul Haque Prodhan, Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Sandip Mitra
Aquaculture especially shrimp farming has significant contribution to the economy of Bangladesh. The southwest coastal area is more prominent for commercial shrimp farming due to its auspicious environment, higher economic returns, nutrition value and for employment opportunity. The present study es...
Sandip Mitra, Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Rasmus Nielsen, Md Takibur Rahman
This study examines the impact of land tenure systems on aquaculture farm productivity, efficiency, and profitability based on information obtained from interviews with 517 randomly selected aquaculture farms across Bangladesh. Propensity score matching (PSM) is used to estimate productivity variati...
Sandip Mitra, Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Rasmus Nielsen, Nazrul Islam
Abstract This study examines how production environment characteristics affect total factor productivity (TFP) and technical efficiency (TE) in aquaculture farms. Enhancing productivity is important for increasing resource use efficiency, especially in developing countries where improvements in the ...
Sandip Mitra, Muhammad Yunus
Tomato is one of the major vegetables in Bangladesh that experienced massive productivity growth after independence. Nevertheless, farmers are struggling to find out optimal input combination in their farm that causes inefficient input use. Therefore, this study estimated the factors affecting effic...
Most Nilufa Khatun, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Sandip Mitra
Financial institutions can make a significant contribution to sustainable economic development. Characterized as “green banking,” banks can foster environmentally friendly practices as well as socially responsible business practices. This study explores the adoption pattern of various green banking ...
Sandip Mitra, Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Rasmus Nielsen, Ganesh Kumar et al.
The increasing population and plateaued capture fishery landings have led to increasing demand for aquaculture products. However, environmental challenges are critical barriers to the sustainable development of aquaculture in developing countries. This review critically evaluates the environmental b...
Sandip Mitra, Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Md Takibur Rahman, Rasmus Nielsen
Intensive pond aquaculture production is increasing and playing a major role in global aquaculture production, especially in developing countries. Empirical evidence shows that the access to and exchange of fresh water in tilapia pond aquaculture is important for making pond production ecologically ...
Sandip Mitra, Sajia Sharmin
Purpose: Tomato production in the world has increased tremendously within last few decades. Nevertheless, tomato farmers are facing production, market, price and financial uncertainty. Management of these risks is greatly influenced by their attitudes towards risk. So, the objective of this study is...
Sajia Sharmin, Sandip Mitra, M. Harun-Ar Rashid
Winter vegetable production has increased tremendously in Bangladesh. Excessive supply of vegetables reduces the market price that leads to economic loss at farm level. This study assesses the growth and trend of winter vegetables production, yield and area in Bangladesh. Semi-log regression model w...
B. S. Mahapatra, Sabyasachi Mitra, Mukesh Kumar, A. K. Ghorai et al.
Jute and allied fibre crops play an important role in Indian economy. Raw jute farming alone creates employment of 10 million man days in agricultural sector per annum. Global production of jute and allied fibres is around 3.0 million tonnes, 92.5% of which comes from India and Bangladesh. India is ...
Tamanna Yesmine, Md. Emran Hossain, Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan, Sandip Mitra et al.
Purpose The economic development of Bangladesh is heavily reliant on the banking industry, yet it faces numerous hurdles, including liquidity issues, capital shortages, non-performing loans, inefficiencies and so on. Therefore, this study investigated the performance and efficiency of scheduled bank...
Shamima Islam, Sandip Mitra, Md. Akhtaruzzaman Khan
This study investigates how the involvement of young and educated farmers in commercial aquaculture in Bangladesh influences the technical and cost efficiency using data obtained from 100 interviews with fish farmers in Bangladesh. The translog stochastic frontier production function was employed to...