utilize the potential benefits of rice exports, policy makers need to reinforce the competitiveness in rice sector of Pakistan. …Rice is an important source for foreign exchange earnings for Pakistan's economy, keeping this fact in mind, this study … is to calculate competitiveness of rice export of Pakistan in international market compared to largest exporter countries …

and rice like two distinct commodities that require country specific and commodity specific policy measures. Finally, the …This paper investigates the international quarterly prices of wheat and rice from 1983(1) to 2012(4). The empirical …, seasonal and irregular components. The empirical results indicate that wheat prices present cyclical behavior while rice prices …

This study assessed the determinants of intensity of adoption of Improved Rice Varieties (IRVs) and the effect of … consists of crosssectional data of 600 rice farmers selected randomly from three notable rice producing States in Nigeria. The … variables that positively and significantly influenced the intensity of IRVs adoption include income from rice production …

Smallholder farming, predominant in Uganda, is characterized by low productivity for most crops including rice which is … to assess the sources of farm-level allocative inefficiency in rice production using the stochastic frontier approach …. Data were collected from a random sample of 200 smallholder rice farmers. Results show that the mean AE was 75%. Household …

, this paper aims to investigate how the farm size affects the cost efficiency of rice production during the Boro season in … large Boro rice growers sampled in the Dinajpur district. Descriptive statistics were used to evaluate the socioeconomic … characteristics of rice farmers. A Cobb-Douglas type stochastic cost frontier model was employed to figure out how the rice farmers …

Contract farming (CF) is increasing been used as a strategy in rice production in Ghana while there is no empirical … data supporting it. This study investigated the importance of CF in rice production. Cross-sectional farm household level … data collected from 350 rice farmers randomly selected across the rice production areas of Ghana was used. The adoption and …

explores how Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures affect Vietnam's rice exports. Using different estimation methods to … handle overdispersion and zero trade flows for data of Vietnam's rice exports to 20 major importing countries over the period … factors, the SPS measures imposed by importing countries have significant impacts on Vietnam's rice export. The findings …

using local media and the policy instrument of input subsidies to promote the use of fertiliser and improved rice varieties. …This research examined the effect of the Government of Ghana's agricultural policy of Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ …) on rice farmers` productivity and welfare in Northern Ghana. The study used survey data collected from beneficiaries and …

consumers' WTP for organic rice in urban and suburban Indonesia using an incentive‐compatible auction based on the Becker … with what they paid for conventional rice outside our experiment. However, our results also indicate that raising consumers …