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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 ...
Six Decades of Total Factor Productivity Change and Sources of Growth in Bangladesh Agriculture (1948–2008)
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013-06-01)
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 ...
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 ...
Energy productivity and efficiency of wheat farming in Bangladesh
(Elsevier, 2014-03-18)
Measuring environmental sustainability in agriculture: A Composite Environmental Impact Index approach
(Elsevier, 2016-01-01)
The present study develops a composite environmental impact index (CEII) to evaluate the extent of environmental degradation in agriculture after successfully validating its flexibility, applicability and relevance as a ...
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 ...