Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics最新文献

{"title":"EXPENDITURE PATTERNS OF SOME INFORMAL SECTORS IN BANGLADESH: AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF DHAKA CITY","authors":"B. K. Barmon","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.199351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.199351","url":null,"abstract":"The present study estimated the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) and the marginal propensity to save (MPS) of the businesses in informal sectors around Dhaka city by using the Keynes consumption function. Primary data is collected from 150 vendors from selected areas of Dhaka city during June -July, 2011. The findings indicated that MPS of most of the vendors of the informal sector was relatively small and their MPC was relatively very high. The MPC of 150 vendors was estimated to be 0.697 and their MPS was estimated to be 0.303. Thus it can be concluded that these vendors of informal sector in Dhaka city spent about 70% of their small income. The coefficients of consumption functions for all types of vendors are statistically significant at 1% level. The values of R 2 for vegetable vendors, tea vendors, fuckha vendors, fruit vendors, mixed vendors and all vendors together are 0.77, 0.87, 0.79, 0.82, 0.92 and 0.85 respectively. The estimates of the multiple regression shows that the family size, saving, gender and family have significant impact on the expenditure along with income of the households in informal sectors of Dhaka city in Bangladesh.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128875145","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":"GROWTH ESTIMATION OF SELECTED MAJOR CROPS IN BANGLADESH","authors":"S. Yasmin, S. Alam, M. Moniruzzaman","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.200258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.200258","url":null,"abstract":"The keen interest of this research paper is to estimate the growth rates of area, production and yield of selected major crops viz., aus, aman, boro, jute and wheat in Bangladesh. The time series data have been used for this purpose. This study covers the time period of 1980/81 to 2009/10. The study was entirely based on secondary data. Growth rates of area, production and yield of major crops were estimated by fitting exponential trend function. Aus, aman, boro, jute and wheat are major crops grown in our country. It is observed that growth of area and production of aus has declined at the rate of 4.74 and 2.69 percent respectively which were statistically significant during the entire period (1980/81 to 2009/10). Increased growth rate of aman yield affected increased production significantly at the rate of 1.48 percent while area declining over the period and area and production of boro increase significantly at the rate of 4.67 and 6.43 percent respectively during the study period (1980/81- 2009/10). Growth rates of area and production of jute had declined significantly at the rate of 2.00 and 0.77 percent respectively over the whole period. But yield of jute showed significant positive growth at the rate of 1.23 percent during the whole period. Area of wheat grew at the rate of 0.93 percent which was statistically significant that helped obtaining increased production (1980/81 to 2005/06) but overall period it was negative and statistically insignificant. Area increase and yield increase helped increase production of crops of wheat, all boro and HYV boro. Analyzing and comparing the growth rates of area, production and yield of major crops may guide the risk averse farmers allowing judicious allocation of cultivated area which ultimately would increase the production and stabilize agricultural supply in Bangladesh. An appropriate price policy, supportive services and massive government program can bring about desired area allocation and consequently in the production of crops in Bangladesh. In short, findings from this research paper may be helpful for planners and policy makers in formulating strategies to improve the efficiency of agricultural sector which is backbone of the economy.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126406764","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":"Empirical estimation of marketed surplus of rice in Bangladesh: A critical review","authors":"M. Jabbar","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.200249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.200249","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding marketed surplus and marketing behaviour of producers helps design technology, policy and institutions to facilitate the process of commercialization of agriculture. In this paper, empirical studies on marketed surplus of rice have been reviewed with a focus on the concepts and methods used, their strengths and weaknesses, and some recommendations have been made to improve estimation methodology in future studies.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133151782","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":"IMPACT OF RICE AND WHEAT PRICE CHANGES ON THE POOR IN SOME SELECTED MONGA AFFECTED AREAS OF BANGLADESH: FIELD EVIDENCE FROM GAIBANDHA DISTRICT","authors":"Ashrafun Naha, M. Mandal, M. S. Rahman","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.200255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.200255","url":null,"abstract":"The study evaluated the impact of price hike on food consumption of the poor and the performance of safety net programmes in the targeted monga affected areas (monga means season of very low employment in September/October, which led to famine like situation in the past). Primary data were collected from a sample of 90 poor households from four villages selected purposively from Gobindaganj Upazila of Gaibandha district, considering the traditional incidence of monga in the area. The sample households included 30 female headed households, 30 farm labour households and 30 non-farm labour households. Secondary data revealed that daily food consumption of the female headed households, farm labour households and non-farm labour households was reduced by about 334 gm, 540 gm and 480 gm, respectively due to price hike. Average daily per capita consumption of food was reduced by about 88 gm for female headed households, 133 gm for farm labour households and 200 gm for non-farm labour households. The average total food consumption was reduced by about a half kg of food per family per day, while per day per capita average consumption was reduced by about141 gm for all households. The poor households tried to minimize the effect of the monga and price increase through various coping strategies such as borrowing on hard terms, selling labour at minimal wages, harvesting crops early, selling assets for low price, lowering family expenditures than required, eating less food than minimum nutrition requirements and often skipping entire meals. Access to social safety net programmes had positive impact on livelihood of the respondent households during the period of rising food prices. Based on the findings, some recommendations were made for improving food security situation of the monga affected people.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"171 2-3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116637222","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":"PRICE INTEGRATION IN POTATO MARKETS OF BANGLADESH","authors":"M. Awal, S. Sabur, A. Huq","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.200322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.200322","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examined the pricing efficiency of potato markets in Bangladesh using EngleGranger test (EG), Cointegration Regression for Durbin Watson (CRDW) test and Error Correction Methods (ECM). For the test of pricing efficiency of potato markets, the wholesale prices were used to test cointegration using data from January 1993 to December 2005 yielding a total of 676 observations. Engle-Granger test was used to estimate the integration among the potato markets in Bangladesh. In the cointegrating set up, error correction method estimated the long-run relationship between reference markets (Dhaka) and selected markets. The cointegration regression for Durbin Watson test revealed that the wholesales potato markets in Bangladesh were integrated","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127663910","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":"Financial Analysis Of Threshers In Rice Farming In Kasba Upazila Of Brahmanbaria District","authors":"J. Ferdous, Hasneen Jahan, T. H. Miah","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.200332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.200332","url":null,"abstract":"This study was conducted to examine the profitability of the investors of power thresher and pedal thresher in the Kasba Upazila in Brahmanbaria district. For this, sixty thresher owners in which 8 were closed drum power threshers, 17 open drum power threshers and 35 pedal threshers, were purposively selected for the study. The method of projects appraisal suggested by Gittinger (1994) was followed by applying three principal discounting measures such as: BCR, NPV and IRR to measure the profitability of the selected thresher owners. Only financial analyses were done. The discount rate selected for the study was only 13 per cent and 10 years life was considered for each of the selected threshers. It was evident from the study that the investment in closed drum power thresher was more profitable than both the open drum and pedal thresher from the viewpoints of individual investors. The results of sensitivity analyses suggested that the investment in pedal thresher was a bit risky business with 10 per cent increase in O& M costs or 10 per cent reduction in gross benefits, if other things remain the same.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128627485","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":"THE TIME SERIES PROPERTIES OF THE DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL TERMS OF TRADE AND THE EXTERNAL NET BARTER TERMS OF TRADE IN BANGLADESH, 1952-2005","authors":"A. Hossain","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.200316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.200316","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the time series properties of the domestic agricultural terms of trade, the external net barter terms of trade and the ratio of the agricultural to the external terms of trade in Bangladesh with annual data for the period 1952-2005. The ADF and the KPSS tests results suggest that the time series of these variables do not have a unit root. The Perron (1989) test results, which makes allowance for a structural break in the series during 1972-1975 because economic and political shocks, suggest that although the domestic agricultural terms of trade does not have a unit root, the null hypothesis of a unit root in both the external terms of trade and the ratio of the agricultural to the external terms of trade cannot be rejected at the conventional 5 per cent level. Having obtained such mixed results, these series are assumed trend-stationary for examining any dynamic relationship between them Accordingly, the domestic agricultural terms of trade and the external terms of trade are detrended and a Granger-causality test is conducted between them. Although the test results are sensitive to the lag-length, they suggest that there is a bi-directional causality between them. This finding casts doubt about the view that the domestic agricultural terms of trade in Bangladesh can be considered a policy instrument that remains under the control of policy makers, who might have used it to 'squeeze agriculture' for industrialisation under an import-substituting strptegy of development until the early 1980s.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124538800","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":"POTENTIALITY OF VERTICALLY INTEGRATED POULTRY CONTRACT FARMING SYSTEM IN BANGLADESH: PROFITABILITY AND PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS","authors":"I. A. Begum","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.200196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.200196","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the potentiality of vertically integrated poultry contract farming system in Bangladesh on farm income through profitability and farm productivity. Although government provides various favourable policies for poultry sector development but till now meat deficiency is 89.5 per cent of the total requirement. This is largely because of lack of necessary backward and forward market linkages. Vertically integrated contract farming could be one possible solution in this case. With effective management, vertically integrated contract farming system can be a means to develop markets and to bring about the transfer of technical know-how and to generate farm income in a way that contributes to farm profitability and productivity. Primary data were collected from 50 sample farmers of ABFL (Aftab Bahumukhi Farms Limited), the pioneer of vertically integrated farm which is situated at Kishorganj district of Bangladesh. Twenty five (25) independent sample farms were also selected from Gazipur district, the poultry region of Bangladesh. Results indicate that the use of production contracts is associated with a substantial increase in profitability, factor productivity, and represents a technological improvement over independent farm production, which would help to alleviate poverty.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"193 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132200483","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":"PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION ASPECTS OF MILK IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF MYMENSINGH","authors":"Md. Abdul Quddus","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.200189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.200189","url":null,"abstract":"The study was conducted to know the profitability of dairy farming, milk consumption pattern and marketing system of the dairy owners. Net return of dairy milk in commercial region was significantly higher than other regions due to rear cross breed cows and feeding them high quality food. Net return from dairy enterprise was 69 per cent of the gross cost and this figure was highest in semi-urban region (75%). The positive values of marginal value products indicate that addition of dry fodder, capital investment and labour would add positive returns through milk production. The regression coefficients using Cobb-Douglas production functions of dry fodder, capital investment, labour involved and breed dummy were positive and significant. Average per capita daily milk consumption by the dairy owners of different income classes and different regions were significantly different. Milk consumption function was higher for the dairy owners in commercial villages and for higher income classes. Education level, farm size, income and milk yield of respondents had positive and significant impact on milk consumption. Significant production elasticity was observed in rural areas whereas significant income elasticity was observed only in riverside village. Dairy enterprise may contribute to economic development of the country by increasing income of dairy owners, number of crossbred cows and extent of commercial farming. Lack of adequate market facilities, poor market infrastructure and low price of milk were the major marketing problems of the dairy owners.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116994646","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 And Allocative Efficiency Of Growing Wheat In Northwest Districts Of Bangladesh","authors":"M. E. Bakh, M. S. Islam","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.200223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.200223","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was undertaken in the Northwest of Bangladesh to measure the technical and allocative efficiency of wheat production. Primary data from 200 farmers field were collected for this study. Frontier production model was used to estimate the technical efficiency and the marginal condition for profit maximization was used to estimate the allocative efficiency (AE). The mean farm specific technical efficiency of wheat growers were 88 percent and 69 percent at Dinajpur and Rangpur, respectively. The frontier farmers received higher yield by following optimum seeding time, using more urea, TSP, gypsum, manure and applying more frequently irrigation water with modest use of seed rate, and human labour at both the sites. So there is scope to increase the farmers' income and wheat yield by adopting the technologies adopted by the frontier farmers.","PeriodicalId":259792,"journal":{"name":"Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122998346","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}