Privatization and deregulation policies in modern agricultural input markets have influenced the rapid diffusion of new technologies in Bangladesh. During the privatization period, total rice area declined, while total rice production increased, signifying a remarkable achievement in improving...

Dimension of changes in cost and return structure of HYV Boro paddy during the last two decades and the determinants of the changes have been examined in this paper. This study is entirely based on secondary data and nominal prices of all inputs as well as output of HYV Boro overtime have been...

Based on micro level study, the present study is mainly concerned with examining impact of lined channel (concrete) compared to unlined channel (earthen) of Deep Tubeweel (DTW) project. The analysis showed that command areas of the DTWs were on the average increased by 40 per cent and...

Bangladesh is facing twin problems of meeting hunger and malnutrition for its growing population. Although, food grain production in Bangladesh in recent years has out paced population growth and thus largely solved the problem of hunger, about half of the people in the country are malnurished...

It is generally alleged that defective fertilizer distribution system which created artificial crisis of Urea was mainly responsible for shortfall of Boro rice production in 1995. Based on macro level as well as micro level data, the present study mainly aimed at investigating whether there were...