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  • Ex-ante Impact of Direct Seeding of Rice as an Alternative to Transplanting Rice in the Indo-Gangetic Plain

    Arelene Julia Malabayabas, Debbie Templeton, and Pratibha Singh
    This study assessed the economic impacts of direct seeding of rice as an alternative crop establishment method for farmers in rice-wheat systems in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar, India. Specifically, it examined the changes in farmers' inputs (labor and materials) and level of productivity...
    Volume 9 Issue No. 2 (December 2012)

  • Institutional Arrangements in Seasonal Floodplain Management under Community-based Aquaculture in Bangladesh

    A.B.M. Mahfuzul Haque, Leontine E. Visser, and Madan M. Dey
    Seasonal floodplains under private and public ownership in the Indo-Ganges river basin provide food and income for millions of people in Bangladesh. Floodplain ownership regimes are diverse, covering the whole spectrum from public to private ownership. The paper compares community-based fish culture...
    Volume 8 Issue No. 1 (June 2011)

  • Soil Conservation Decisions and Upland Corn Productivity: A Philippine Case Study

    Agnes C. Rola, Asa Jose U. Sajise, Dieldre S. Harder, and Joe Marvin P. Alpuerto
    This paper empirically investigates whether farmers who adopt soil conservation measures derive productivity gains. A twelve-year (1994-2006) panel data in Bukidnon, Philippines was used to quantify the indirect relationship between soil conservation technology adoption and upland corn productivity...
    Volume 6 Issue No. 2 (December 2009)

  • Technical Efficiency of Rice-Producing Households in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

    Huynh Truong Huy
    Technical Effi ciency (TE) is an estimation of the ability of a household to produce the maximum output with the given inputs. It is usually estimated by using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). Data collected from 261 rice-farming households in the Mekong...
    Volume 6 Issue No. 2 (December 2009)

  • Determinants of Crop Choices by Bangladeshi Farmers: A Bivariate Probit Analysis

    Sanzidur Rahman
    Using a bivariate probit model, the study jointly determines the factors underlying the probability of Bangladeshi farmers adopting a diversified cropping system and/or modern rice technology. Results reveal that the availability of irrigation is the single most important determinant of the decision...
    Volume 5 Issue No. 1 (June 2008)

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