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  • Determinants of Demand for Fertilizer: A Case for India

    Kalyan Chakraborty
    In India, agriculture contributes 14 percent to GDP and provides subsistence to two-thirds of the population. One of the top priorities of the Indian government is to provide food security to more than 1.25 billion people. Hence, increasing farm productivity is viewed as a primary goal for the...
    Volume 13 Issue No. 1 (June 2016)

  • Increasing Crop Production Benefits to Small Producers in Bangladesh

    Elizabeth Bryan, Andrew Reid Bell, Claudia Ringler, and Akhter U. Ahmed
    Agricultural production in South Asia is characterized by intensive use of inputs, such as fertilizers and irrigation water, and by a focus on production of staple crops, especially rice. However, continued growth of the agriculture sector is hampered by a number of challenges. In Bangladesh, these...
    Volume 15 Issue No. 1 (June 2018)

  • Exploring Pathways for Promoting and Scaling Up Climate-Smart Agriculture in Myanmar

    Wilson John D. Barbon, Ohnmar Khaing, Phyu Sin Thant, and Julian Gonsalves
    This paper explores potential pathways for promoting and scaling up the uptake of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in Myanmar, using qualitative methods. Key informant interviews with stakeholders from government, research institutes, international and local development agencies, and the private...
    Volume 19 Issue No. 1 (June 2022)

  • Statistical Modeling of Crop-Weather Relationship in India: A Survey on Evolutionary Trend of Methodologies

    Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh and Phanindra Goyari
    Weather factors, like other inputs such as land, labor, seeds, irrigation, fertilizer, and pesticides are also direct inputs in crop production. In a state of agriculture where the adoption and diffusion of modern technologies is very low or almost nil, weather factors count more than other inputs...
    Volume 15 Issue No. 1 (June 2018)

  • Maize Supply Response in Vietnam

    Nguyen Van Huong and Jose M. Yorobe
    This study used a supply response model to determine factors affecting maize supply in Vietnam. It estimated response coefficients from semi-annual time-series data for the period 1986-2011. Using three criteria, it chose the rational expectation hypothesis supply response model (Model I) with the...
    Volume 14 Issue No. 1 (June 2017)

  • Sources of Growth and Instability in Agricultural Production in Western Odisha, India

    Mrutyunjay Swain
    This paper analyzes the nature and sources of agricultural instability in the Bolangir district of Western Odisha, India. The nature of instability in agricultural production is examined by determining the agricultural instability index (AII) of variables such as area, production and yield of food...
    Volume 11 Issue No. 2 (December 2014)

  • Organic Farming as an Innovative Farming System Development Model toward Sustainable Agriculture in Bali

    I Wayan Budiasa
    Organic farming has been promoted and developed in Bali since 2006 by the government in collaboration with private businesses and certification bodies. This research aimed to synthesize the development of Balinese organic production as an effort toward sustainable agriculture. Data from the in-depth...
    Volume 11 Issue No. 1 (June 2014)

  • Supply Response and Investment in Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh

    Lalmani Pandey, P. Parthasarathy Rao, P.S. Birthal, Cynthia Bantilan, and Hans P. Binswanger
    The study explored the response of aggregate farm output, input use, and farm investment decisions to output and input prices, wages, technological change, public investments, and climatic factors using district-level panel data of over 39 years from Andhra Pradesh. It confirms the low, short-run...
    Volume 9 Issue No. 2 (December 2012)

  • Risk Perceptions, Attitudes, and Influential Factors of Rainfed Lowland Rice Farmers in Ilocos Norte, Philippines

    Marilou P. Lucas and Isabelita M. Pabuayon
    This study analyzes the risk perceptions and risk attitudes of farmers practicing different rice-based cropping patterns in the rainfed lowland ecosystems of Ilocos Norte, Philippines. The Likert scale and Kruskal-Wallis test were employed to assess the farmers' risk perceptions while the...
    Volume 8 Issue No. 2 (December 2011)

  • Trends in India's Agricultural Growth and Its Determinants

    Elumalai Kannan
    The present study discusses the trends in crop sector growth at national and sub-national levels in India. Data on important variables such as area, production, input use, and value of output were compiled for the periods 1967-1968 to 2007-2008 from published sources. The analysis reveals that the...
    Volume 8 Issue No. 2 (December 2011)

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