U.S. Drought Impacts on the U.S. and International Rice Economy …

focus on Arkansas rice and the U.S. rice sector. The results suggest that the Price Loss Coverage program provides a … relatively strong safety net for long‐grain rice producers. …

The study was conducted during 2008-2009 to estimate the farm-size-specific technical efficiency of rice growers. The … production of rice for marginal farms indicating that production could be increased by increasing efficiency with the existing …

Improving local rice production capacity is a key element on the agenda of most countries in the West African Economic … and Monetary Union (WAEMU). There are several reasons for this drive: (1) the high levels of rice imports, which … food security programmes; (3) income generation for smallholder farm communities; and (4) the contribution of rice to the …

Rice is an economically important food security crop, cultivated in almost all of Nigeria’s 36 States. Nigeria spends … more than 356 billion naira (2.24 billion US dollars) annually on rice import. This paper set out to analyze the trend in … rice production, productivity, import, value of import and consumption that follows the adoption of the Structural …

This paper has studied the trends in the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of rice in India for the period 1980 … stagnation in rice is not due to technology fatigue, but could be due to the sluggish input intensification. The study calls for … policy initiatives for strengthening investments on research and extension for furthering the TFP growth and steps for …