Technical efficiency of Boro rice production in Bangladesh: A case of bio-slurry application

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to estimate the impact of bioslurry to Boro rice production in Bangladesh. Translog production function through Stochastic Frontier Apoproach (SFA) was applied for estimating the efficiency of Boro production. Data were collected from biogas users in the four district of Bangladesh: Mymensingh, Pabna, Thakurgaon and Dinajpur. Biogas users have received significant impact from bio-slurry to Boro rice production while chemical fertilizers have no significant impact to same production. The production efficiency of biogas users is notably different from traditional farms. The efficiency differences are explained mostly by farm size, year of education, family size and off-farm income. Bio-slurry could be applied for reducing application of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and labour requirement that lead to more organic agriculture practices with producing more output, earn more income and save foreign currency.J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 13(1): 101-108, June 2015

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“…Coelli [22] had developed the software FRONTIER 4.1c, which can be used to generate both the stochastic production frontier and the inefficiency model simultaneously. Moreover, the FRONTIER 4.1c was widely applied in different fields of research in the recent years, especially in agricultural studies like [15,17,20,[23][24][25][26][27][28] for instance.…”

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“…However, organic fertilizer's impact on rice production and technical efficiency is still a gap in research. Although, many studies have estimated stochastic frontier production for farms to analyze technical efficiency and contributions of different inputs ( Battese and Coelli, 1995 ; Greene, 2005 ; Bäckman et al., 2011 ; Kabir et al., 2016 ; Gautam and Ahmed, 2019 ). However, almost no one focuses on applying organic fertilizer with correction of sample selection for rice production.…”

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“…Coelli [22] had developed the software FRONTIER 4.1c, which can be used to generate both the stochastic production frontier and the inefficiency model simultaneously. Moreover, the FRONTIER 4.1c was widely applied in different fields of research in the recent years, especially in agricultural studies like [15,17,20,[23][24][25][26][27][28] for instance. 1 According to 14.…”