Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics最新文献

{"title":"DEMAND, SUPPLY AND REASONS FOR PRICE HIKE OF POTATO IN BANGLADESH","authors":"S. Sabur, M. A. Monayem Miah, M. Begum, Md. Mizanur Rahman, M. U. Molla","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.313839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.313839","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of the study is to find out the factors behind the supply, demand and thereby prices of potato and explore the existence of syndicate in the market. The study is mainly based on secondary data. Additionally, some qualitative data were collected through FGD and KII from Bogura, Rangpur and Munshiganj areas. The area, production and yield of potato grew by 4.58%, 6.61% and 1.95%, respectively per annum since independence. The production of HYV potato rose sharply, while local one rose at a slower pace. Potato production exhibits high fluctuation with roughly three years’ cycle, which sharply decreased in the recent past. The nominal prices of potato witnessed upward trend, while real prices experienced downward trend since independence. There exists wide seasonal price variation of potato with the lowest price in March and the highest in December. Potato market seemingly integrated as prices at all levels move together. The rising trend of potato prices seems to be halted after re-fixing prices by DAM. Real prices displayed wide price variation as volatility index stands at 73.16%. The total surplus of potatoes in 2020 stands at 3.40 lakh MT which is much lower than the previous years. The profit earned by the potato growers was estimated at around Tk. 1.1 million /ha. The estimated DRC implies that Bangladesh had comparative advantage in potato production for export promotion. In 2020, 73% capacity of 392 cold storages in operation is utilized. It is concluded that main cause of the price hike was the artificial crisis created by some profit seeking traders rather than the low production and higher consumption of potato in the country. Fixation of price, regular market monitoring and taking legal action to the artificial crisis creators may be the way of avoiding unexpected price hike of potato in the country.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117100222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EFFECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION STRATEGIES ON PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY OF CHICKPEA AND LENTIL IN RAJSHAHI DISTRICT","authors":"M. Khatun, M. Begum, M. Rashid, Md. Abdul Monayem Miah, M. K. Hasan","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.313837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.313837","url":null,"abstract":"Adaptation assists farmers to cope with climate change by reducing adverse effect and increasing productivity of agricultural production. The study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of climate change adaptation strategies on production efficiency of selected pulse crops in Bangladesh. A total of 100(50 chickpea and 50 lentil farmers) pulse growers were selected. A multistage random sampling technique was followed to select the sample farmers. Descriptive statistics and statistical analytical tools such as multinomial logit model and stochastic frontier production function were used. The most common strategy followed in the study areas was increased insecticides or pesticides application (90%) due to climate change. Farmers also followed more doses of fertilizer application (85%), crop diversification (60%), change in land under pulse cultivation (25%), land fragmentation (3%), relay cropping (6%) and seed treatment (11%) as main adaptation strategies to climate change. Climate change awareness had positive, farm size had negative but connection to extension services had both positive and negative significant relationship with choosing and using different climate change adaptation strategies in chickpea cultivation. Education, climate change awareness and extension contact had significant positive relationship and farm size had both positive and negative significant relationship with choosing and using different climate change adaptation strategies in lentil cultivation. Seed had negative and other agrochemicals had positive and significant effect on the yield of both pulses. Average technical efficiency of the farmers was 0.83 and 0.82 for chickpea and lentil respectively implies that there is a scope of increasing productivity of chickpea and lentil by 17% and 18% respectively using current level of inputs only by increasing the farmers’ efficiency. Adaptation strategy multiple planting dates had positive and significant effect on technical inefficiency of chickpea growers. Pulse production efficiency can be increased by eliminating the constraints to adopt climate change adaptation strategies.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132385157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"WETLANDS ATTRIBUTES AND INFLUENCES ON FOOD SECURITY OF HOUSEHOLDS AROUND OGUN RIVER OF NIGERIA","authors":"T. Olarewaju, A. Shittu, A. Dipeolu, O. Oduntan","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.313838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.313838","url":null,"abstract":"The physical and ecological attributes of wetlands are important in their economic and biological usefulness. To this end, this research answers questions such as: what are the attributes of the wetland in the study area? Do the wetland attributes have influence on food security status of the households? The study was conducted in the wetlands of Ogun River and its tributaries located in the South-western Nigeria. Primary data were collected through the use of personally administered questionnaire and interview. Two stage sampling technique was used in selecting 633 households included in this study. Data were analyzed using descriptive techniques; United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) food security module and binary Logit model. The result revealed that wetlands of upper Ogun have abundance of all wetland attributes examined. Food security situation in households with children was not different from those without children. Majority of wetland residents’ households were not food secure leaving about a quarter as food secured. All the eight wetland attributes examined in this study had potential of increasing food security among wetland households as food security was constituently higher in wetlands with abundance of these attributes as against where they are limited. Socio-economic characteristics and wetland attributes have influence on food security status of households. The study therefore recommends that wetlands that are deep and free flowing with unobstructed water ways should be developed by government, international development agencies and non-governmental organizations so as to improve food security status in wetlands areas.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"582 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116541871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"FACTORS INFLUENCING THE USE OF MOBILE PAYMENT SERVICES IN SELECTED AREAS OF BANGLADESH","authors":"M. Rasheduzzaman, Md. Salauddin Palash, Md. Mostafizur Rahman","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.313836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.313836","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile payment services are spreading in Bangladesh like a spider net with the development of information and communication technology (ICT) and ubiquitous internet access. The present study was conducted to explore the influencing factors of e-commerce transaction through mobile payment services and to investigate the customer experiences with the services where sources of satisfaction and dissatisfaction were identified. Data were collected from 240 users of mobile payment services through field survey during March to April in 2020 by purposive sampling method from Mymensingh and Sylhet Districts. The main satisfaction sources those emerged from the content analysis were, in descending order of incidents: convenience, problem solving, offer and discount, security and trust, and efficacy. On the other hand, complexity and network failure were the main reasons of customer dissatisfaction with mobile payment services. The findings of the multiple linear regression models revealed that age, education, monthly income and residential area had statistically significant effect on monthly e-commerce transaction over mobile payment services. Young people were more prone to use mobile payment services than older. People with higher education transacted less money over mobile payment services. Higher income earner transacted more money over mobile payment services. People live in urban area used the services frequently and transacted more money. The service providers should increase their availability and more advertisements are required to be placed at every possible means of medium in order to aware people about mobile payment services. Building trust among the users and feel them secured are also crying need to develop this sector at a faster way in near future.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123850218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY AND TECHNOLOGICAL GAP RATIOS OF TOMATO PRODUCTION IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: A STOCHASTIC META FRONTIER APPROACH:","authors":"O. C. Aloysius, Uche Victor, Ezeano Ike Caleb, Anumudu Oluchi Odinaka","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.313834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.313834","url":null,"abstract":"The study on technical efficiency and technological gap ratios of tomato production in Northern Nigeria used a stochastic meta-frontier approach to compare the technical efficiency (TE) and technological gap ratios (TGRs) of farmers after establishing the existence of heterogeneous technology adoption among farmers. Data were collected from a cross-section of 359 randomly selected farmers. A trans-log production function model proved more appropriate through a likelihood ratio test, therefore, stochastic frontier analysis and meta-frontier analysis approach were used. The study revealed that Plateau farmers are more technically efficient than Kano and Taraba counterparts respectively. Furthermore, the mean TGR associated with Taraba farmers is tangential to the meta-frontier output, this implies that Taraba farmers adopted the most advanced technology in the industry, while Plateau and Kano farmers need to close up 0.5% and 1.2% gap respectively in order to produce at the optimal output. By policy implication, Plateau and Kano farmers need to be educated on the need to adopt the best agricultural technology to increase their production. This calls for intensification of extension effort in Plateau and Kano state.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125151593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"CAN COLD STORAGE REDUCE SEASONAL VARIATION IN PRICES OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES? A CASE OF POTATO IN BANGLADESH:","authors":"Md. Shishir Ahamed, M. Moniruzzaman, N. Tabassum","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.313835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.313835","url":null,"abstract":"Cold storage has a significant role to maintain supply of potato throughout the year in a country and hence it can influence to reduce the seasonal price variations because in agriculture supply mainly regulates the price of commodities. This study was undertaken to investigate whether the cold storage can reduce the seasonal variation in prices of potato in Bangladesh. National data on monthly wholesale prices of potatoes (potato local, potato Holland white and red) were collected during the period from 1972 to 2018 from Department of Agricultural Marketing. Ratio to the moving average method was applied to measure the seasonal price indices between the two periods (before establishing sufficient capacity of cold storage and after establishing sufficient capacity of cold storage for storing potato in Bangladesh) for assessing whether the cold storage can reduce seasonal variation in prices of potato.  From the study it was revealed that seasonal price variation of different varieties of potatoes became lower after establishing sufficient cold storage capacity (more than 30 per cent of total potato production from 1988 to 2018) in the country, i.e., there is an impact of cold storage in reducing the seasonal price variation of potato. Because price variations for individual months, coefficient of variation and range, all of them are lower after establishing sufficient capacity of cold storage.  So, cold storages can reduce the seasonal variation in prices of potato. Government should facilitate more for establishing cold storage; these facilities can improve the seasonal price fluctuations of other vegetables also.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133637986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determinants of children's nutritional status across agricultural and non-agricultural households in rural Bangladesh.","authors":"Mahbub Hossain","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.309249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.309249","url":null,"abstract":"While child health reflects a country’s state of well-being; Bangladesh struggles to make a comprehensive success in reducing its widespread child under-nutrition. The key interest of this paper is to understand what determines the nutritional status of rural children in Bangladesh and how these determinants compare between agricultural and non-agricultural households. Based on a sample of 1,444 children drawn from rural Bangladesh, this study estimates the extent to which measures of child under-nutrition (underweight and stunting) are associated with child, parent, household, and community level variables. The estimates of Logit regressions suggest that variables such as birth weight, parents’ health, mother’s education, and prevalence of health care facilities at village significantly reduces the probability of underweight and stunting. This paper also finds that agricultural and non-agricultural households differ in respect of what determines the children’s nutrition in these households. The policy implication of this study is that government initiatives aiming at reducing child under-nutrition in rural Bangladesh should recognise that any generic measures may not bring about the optimal result given the diversity of rural households. Thus, this paper may be useful in designing better interventions for improving health and nutrition of the rural children of Bangladesh as well as similar Southeast Asian countries.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134511588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF BORO RICE PRODUCTION IN HAOR ECOSYSTEM OF KISHOREGANJ DISTRICT","authors":"M. Kamruzzaman, Md. Taj Uddin","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.309248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.309248","url":null,"abstract":"The study was carried out to evaluate the economic viability of Boro rice production in haor ecosystem of Kishoreganj district. A total of 175 rice farmers were selected from Mithamoin upazila on the basis of farm size category following random sampling technique. Data were analyzed with a combination of descriptive statistics, mathematical and statistical techniques. It was found from descriptive statistics that average farm size of the farmers was 0.54 ha, where majority of the farmers were small category. Varietal diversity index (VDI) pointed out that most of the farmers had low Boro rice varietal diversity in the study area. The study revealed that Boro rice production was profitable and productivity index was very high. Estimates of transcendental production model indicated that power tiller and insecticides cost had significant impact on profitability of Boro rice production. It was exposed from the Mann-Whitney U test that biotic stress caused lower yield of production. Considering severity ranking model (SRM), the severity of damage was extreme for disease infestation. Following garrett’s ranking technique (GRT), lower price of output, early flash flood inundation and lack of short-duration and high-yielding variety were found the major constraints faced by the farmers. The study recommended that short-duration, high-yielding and pest tolerant Boro rice varieties should be developed for the farmers. Therefore, proper extension services by the government are necessary to encourage farmers for adopting such technological improvements in order to produce Boro rice economically more viable.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130675449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DETERMINANTS OF FOOD INSECURITY STATUS OF FISHERIES COMMUNITY IN COASTAL REGIONS OF BANGLADESH","authors":"Sabikun Nahar Himi, Mohammad Amirul Islam, S. Majumder","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.309246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.309246","url":null,"abstract":"Food insecurity is a notable state of the well-being of people. However, the common determinants of food insecurity have nevertheless to be formally known, especially for the coastal region. This study aims to investigate the demographic and socio-economic determinants of food insecurity of the fishermen communities in the coastal areas, namely Galachipa, Kalapara and Dumki upazilas in Patuakhali district of Bangladesh. A two-stage cluster sampling technique has been used for getting the primary data (n=200). The food insecurity status was measured by using Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) suggested under the indicator of 2.1.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Logistic regression model has been used to identify the determinants of food insecurity status. Results reveal that families having larger number of members are more likely to be food insecure than the families with small numbers of members. Also, households having monthly income level below BDT 5000 are more food insecure than their counterparts. Another important determinant by which food insecurity is significantly affected is the education of household head. A range of viable policy interventions for the fishermen communities have been recommended. These include i) diversification of income generating opportunities, ii) improving education status of the community to enable to shift to safer employment when necessary, iii) building awareness on adverse effects of bigger family size through family planning campaign, and iv) providing skilled based training and necessary credit access among the unemployed members of the household.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125873660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"INTRA-HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY STATUS AMONG ULTRA-POOR COMMUNITIES IN MYMENSINGH DISTRICT:","authors":"Masuma Bari, Mohammad Amirul Islam, M. Imam, Md. Fuad Hassan","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.309245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.309245","url":null,"abstract":"Recent global agenda including Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) highlight the importance of addressing food security, especially among the ultra-poor communities at the intra-household level. Ensuring food security would continue to be a major challenge among South-Asian countries like Bangladesh. Although Bangladesh has achieved sufficiency in food production but food security is remaining a challenge in rural areas and some clusters in urban areas. This study was conducted to explore the household food security among the ultra-poor communities at Phulpur and Tarakanda upazilas of the Mymensingh district in Bangladesh. The sample size consisted of 150 households. The binary logistic regression model was used to determine the socio-economic factors influencing food security. The wife’s (primary female) education was found to be positively, while husband’s (household head) occupation was found to be negatively associated with the food security status of the selected households. Considering 1805 kcal, 56.7% of the sample households were food secure, and considering 2122 kcal, 42% were food secure. This study also revealed indicative disparities in food security within households. Policies should address these issues.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114425194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}