the production and trade of rice the most important food crop in India and the world. …

This paper studies the integration of rice markets in the mid-west and far-west districts of Nepal. The data were drawn … mainly from the World Food Programme (WFP) database on Nepal. Results indicate that the rice markets of the hinterland are …

of Philippine rice farming. We empirically estimate a model of farmer behavior and then simulate the consequences of …

food basket. The most significant observation is the falling in per capita consumption of rice with continuous growth of … demand for wheat based products. The objective of this study is to estimate the demand elasticities of rice in Malaysia …, focusing whether rice is an inferior good. By using data from Household Expenditure Survey 2004/2005, this study obtains demand …

rice in Malaysia. The findings provide mixed signals which are different from other rice production countries. Hence …

Vietnam and the productivity effect on plot level and whole farm rice growing . We show that land titles are indeed important …

This paper describes how the social capital of rice farmers of the Mekong delta of Vietnam - manifested in the … tradition of collective farming practice, changed from the 1940s to 1990s. The reason this collective rice farming had existed … agrarian reforms which aimed to improve rural livelihood. Land reform resulted in individual rice farming, making mobilization …

the rice industry sector to contribute to the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change by increasing rice … method of rice cultivation: the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). SRI is an innovative approach to rice cultivation but …

crop as well as system for Rice Stem Borers (RSB) simulation. The system works in two parts. The first part addresses the …