Impact of land fragmentation and soil fertility on Aus rice producers’ technical efficiency in Barisal district of Bangladesh

Authors

  • AKM Abdullah Al Amin Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202
  • M Saidur Rahman Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202
  • MI Hossain Department of Agribusiness and Marketing, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202

Keywords:

Rice productivity, Land fragmentation, Soil fertility, Technical efficiency, Stochastic production frontier

Abstract

This article determines the impact of land fragmentation and soil fertility on Aus rice producers technical efficiency (TE) of Barisal district in Bangladesh. A total of 60 farm households from two villages were selected using stratified random sampling procedure. Detailed input and output data for the Aus were collected in May 2015. Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier model was used to address this TE. Results indicate that the mean TE was 0.61. Among the four land fragmentation indicators two were found to be statistically significant with anticipated signs. The positive effect of the number of plots on TE implies that variation effect exceeded the management effect and the average distance from plots to homestead indicating loss of time and inconvenience in farming management as well as inefficiencies in input use. The study also used two indicators of soil fertility (i.e., share of highly fertile land and share of not highly fertile land). Between these share of highly fertile land had positive impact on TE in rice productivity. Therefore, the study includes policy implications addressing the structural causes of land fragmentation and developing effective strategies to promote soil conservation.

J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 14(1): 75-81, June 2016

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AKM Abdullah Al Amin, Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202



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Published

2016-12-10

How to Cite

Al Amin, A. A., Rahman, M. S., & Hossain, M. (2016). Impact of land fragmentation and soil fertility on Aus rice producers’ technical efficiency in Barisal district of Bangladesh. Journal of the Bangladesh Agricultural University, 14(1), 75–81. Retrieved from https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/JBAU/article/view/30601

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Economics and Rural Sociology

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