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Comparative Factors and Income Share of Power Tiller and Draught Animal Power in Rice Production

M A Quayum
Senior Scientific Officer
BRRI, Gazipur

Amin Muhammad Ali
Professor
Department of Economics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka.

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

This study takes an attempt to assess the differences in income distribution among the participants in modern rice (MV) production using power tiller (PT) and draught animal power (DAP) in 2003 in some selected areas of Bogra, Comilla, Chuadanga and Manikganj districts in Bangladesh. The highest share (43%) was accrued by the current inputs of Boro rice followed by human labour (32%) under PT users. In case of DAP users higher shares were attributed to current inputs (46%) followed by human labour (35%) for Boro rice cultivation. Human labour earned the largest share of output in case of both PT users and DAP users for MV T. Aman and T. Aus cultivation but the share accrued to the human labour was always lower in mechanized farms (PT users) largely as a result of the decline in use of family labour. The larger shares were attributed to residual on PT users’ farm compared to DAP users’ farms for all types of rice such as MV Boro (8%), MV T. Aman (24%), and MV T. Aus (17%). The income share analysis indicates that hired human labour earned higher income share under PT users (both owner-users and hirer-users taken together) than that of DAP users (both owner-users and hirer-users taken together). Similar results were found in case of pure owner-users and pure hirer-users of both PT and DAP. The imputed total cost of a factor as a proportion of total value of the crop grown was the highest for human labour irrespective of cultivation method used. Share of farmer in total value added in the crop production was higher when DAP was used for rice production. Share of hired labour in total value added was greater for PT than for DAP in MV rice production.

Keywords: Income Share, Power Tiller, Draught Animal Power, Rice Production

Location: Chandina, Nandigram, Chuadanga sadar and Singair

Start Date: 01-04-2003

End Date: 31-12-2003

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Commodity: Power Tiller

Objectives:

To examine the factor share of different rice crop production by PT users and DAP users (both owner-users and hirer-users as well);
To assess the differences in income distribution among the participants in crop production using PT and DAP (both owner-users and hirer-users as well).

Methodology:

Four upazilas namely Chandina, Nandigram, Chuadanga sadar and Singair were randomly selected from Comilla, Bogra, Chuadanga and Manikganj districts of Bangladesh respectively. Two villages were randomly selected from one agricultural block of the selected upazilas. Selected villages were Rushulpur and Lona of Chandina, Nandigram and Chakalma of Nandigram, Shangkarchandra and Manikdihi of Chuadanga sadar, and Luxmipur and Beguntahary of Singair. A sample frame was developed from the comprehensive farmers list of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) for each village. Sample farmers were stratified into four strata by the help of DAE and key informant farmers of the respective villages. The strata were- (i) PT owner farmers (those who both own and use PT), (ii) PT hirer- user farmers (those who hire and use PT), (iii) Draught animal power owner farmers (those who both own and use DAP) and (iv) Draught animal power hirer- user farmers (those who hire and use DAP). Farmers those who used both power tiller and draught animal power in the same plot for land preparation were identified and not considered as sample. Stratified random sampling technique was followed for selecting sample farms proportionately from each stratum. Structure questionnaires were used for collecting data from the farmers of the developed stratum (e.g, PT owner- users, PT hirer- users, bullock power owner- users, and bullock power hirer-users). Sample size was 267. Among those 180 were power tiller users (41 PT owners and 139 PT hirers) and 87 were bullock power users (58 DAP owners and 29 DAP hirers). Survey was done during April 2003 to December 2003.

Source of Information: BANGLADESH RICE JOURNAL 16(1):1-10, June 2012, ISSN 1025-7330

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Achievement/Findings:

Factor share analysis revealed that share of human labour was higher in case of DAP used for rice cultivation than that of PT. It indicated that hired labour's share increased and family labour earnings declined on mechanized farms. Thus farmers would be in a better position for growing crops under PT compared to DAP. Though the shares of different production factors were higher in non-mechanized farms than those of mechanized farms share attributed to residual was higher in case of mechanized farms than that of non- mechanized farms. An income share analysis indicated that farmer earned higher share of the total income as PT owner-users and hirer-users than that of DAP owner-users and hirer-users for cultivation of all types of rice. Similar results were found in case of both family human labour and family animal labour. The income share of the farmers’ generated by residual was higher for PT users (both owner and hirer) than that for DAP users (both owner and hirer) for cultivation of all types of rice. Hired labour earned higher share of income of the total income when PT was used than that of DAP. Thus, factor share and income share analyses indicated that crop production was more profitable under PT from the view- point of farmers and hired labour.

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