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Impact of urea price change on the economic optimum level of N fertilizer use in HYV rice and its yield in Bangladesh
(Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2017-12-04)
The study estimates the impact of change in urea price on the economic optimum level of N fertilizer use in HYV rice and its yield in Bangladesh using a large set of experimental data of BRRI from 15 regions covering an ...
Climate Change Response at the Farm Level: A Review of Farmers’ Awareness and Adaptation Strategies in Developing Countries
(2014-11-19)
This paper provides an overview of farmers’ awareness and a typology of adaptation strategies undertaken in order to combat climate change at the farm-level in developing countries. The review suggests that the extent to ...
Community resilience in rural China: the case of Hu Village, Sichuan Province
(Elsevier, 2018-05)
Building on conceptual frameworks to assess community resilience developed by Emery and Flora (2006) and Kelly et al. (2015), this study analyses the resilience of Hu village (Sichuan, China). The resilience of the village ...
Changes in total factor productivity and efficiency of microfinance institutions in the developing world: A non-parametric approach
(The Economic Society of Australia Inc., 2018-12)
© 2018 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland Applying the Färe–Primont index, this paper computes the total factor productivity (TFP) index for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in terms of its six individual components: ...
Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Technological Change in Bangladesh Agriculture
(1998-08-10)
Widespread controversies exist on the delayed consequences of technological change or ‘Green Revolution’ technology in agriculture largely due to the approach utilized in the evaluation process and the extent of issues ...
Total Factor Energy Productivity and Efficiency Changes of the Gher (Prawn-Carp-Rice) Farming System in Bangladesh: A Stochastic Input Distance Function Approach
(MDPI, 2018-12-13)
This paper measures energy performance, Total Factor Energy Productivity (TFEP), technical change (TC) and energy efficiency change (EEC) of the gher (prawn-carp-rice) farming system using a unique panel data of 90 farmers ...
Women’s gainful employment in ‘gher’ farming system (prawn–carp–rice integrated culture) in Bangladesh: trends and determinants
(Springer Verlag, 2019-04)
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The paper examines trends in women’s gainful employment in ‘prawn-carp’ and ‘high yield variety (HYV) rice’ enterprises of the ‘gher’ farming system and jointly identifies the ...