Productivity and Resource Use Efficiency of Boro Rice Production

Abstract

This study was attempted to measure and compare resource use efficiency and relative productivity of farming under different tenure conditions in an area of Bhola district. A random sampling technique was used in the study. Sample farmers were classified as owner, crop share tenant and cash tenant farmers. A total of 90 samples, 30 from each class were selected on the basis of random sampling technique. The study explored the difference in the efficiency and productivity among owner, cash tenant and crop share tenant. Total cash expenses as well as total gross costs for producing HYV Boro rice was highest in owner farms and lowest in crop share tenant's farm. When individual inputs were concerned it was observed that expenses on human labor shared a major portion of expenses in the production of HYV Boro rice where owner operators used more hired labor in compare to other groups. However, the cash tenant farmers were more efficient than owner and crop share tenant farmers. Due to poor resource base the crop share tenants were unable to invest on modern farm inputs. It may be mentioned that in Bangladesh the predominant tenancy arrangement is share cropping, which is an inefficient form of tenure arrangement in compare to cash tenancy.

Financial profitability and resource use efficiency of boro rice cultivation in some selected area of Bangladesh

“…For boro rice production the rumination of the coefficients was 0.808 indicating the production functions exhibit decreasing returns to scale. Almost same result was found by Majumder et al (2009) and reversed result was found by Ahmed et al (2009) for boro rice production.…”

“…The MVP values for all the variables were greater than one which indicated that farmers had chances of increasing per hectare output by utilizing more seedling, urea fertilizers, irrigation and human labour. Majumder et al (2009) reported a similar result for owners and tenant operators, the MVP of seedlings and insecticides were higher than one while for cash tenants MVP of seedlings, insecticides and fertilizers were greater than one. Greater than one MVP ratio to MFC for seed, chemical fertilizers, plant protection chemicals and human labour was also found by Parasar et al (2016).…”

“…If seed cost had increased the productivity as well as cost of rice cultivation would increase. Same result for seed also found by Majumder et al (2009) and Ahmed et al (2009). 1% increasing use of urea would increase the gross return of rice by 0.14% in facts its parameter was significant at 10% level of significance.…”

“…Besides land and labour, irrigation was also found as significant determinants of modern rice productivity where decreasing returns to scale prevailed (Rahman, 2011). At the time of considering individual inputs, human labour was found as the largest contributor of expenses of HYV boro rice production in Bhola district (Majumder et al, 2009). Irrigation played a positive and vital role in the productivity of both conventional and HYV of rice cultivation in Rajbari district of Bangladesh (Bapari, 2016).…”

Profitability of crop cultivation under different land tenurial arrangements in some selected sites of Bangladesh

“…Again, the BCR in leased land (1.55) of owner cum tenant farmers was higher than this share cropped land (Table 5). The results are in conformity with the findings of Majumder and Roy (2009). 3.6 Impact of socio-economic variables on gross revenues of the share cropped land of owner cum tenant farmers Table 6 presents the summary result of the impact of socio-economic variables on gross revenues.…”