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Technical Efficiency of Boro Rice Production in Bangladesh: a Case of Bio-slurry Application

H. Kabir
Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202

M. Musharraf
Department of Economics, Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University, Trishal, Mymensingh

M. M. Haque
Graduate Training Institute, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202

M. Khan
Department of Animal Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh,

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The main objective of this study is to estimate the impact of bioslurry to Boro rice production in Bangladesh. Translog production function through Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) was applied for estimating the efficiency of Boro production. Data were collected from biogas users in the four district of Bangladesh: Mymensingh, Pabna, Thakurgaon and Dinajpur. Biogas users have received significant impact from bio-slurry to Boro rice production while chemical fertilizers have no significant impact to same production. The production efficiency of biogas users is notably different from traditional farms. The efficiency differences are explained mostly by farm size, year of education, family size and off-farm income. Bio-slurry could be applied for reducing application of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and labour requirement that lead to more organic agriculture practices with producing more output, earn more income and save foreign currency.

Keywords: Bio-slurry, Technical Efficiency, Profitability, Boro

Location: Mymensingh, Pabna, Thakurgaon and Dinajpur

Start Date: 00-00-0000

End Date: 00-00-0000

Program Area: Crop-Soil-Water Management

Commodity: Bio fertilizer

Objectives:

To estimate the impact of bioslurry to Boro rice production in Bangladesh

Methodology:

The research has been conducted on the basis of slurry based semi-organic practice and conventional agricultural practice in the study. Indeed, the farm household doesn’t rely completely only slurry practice in agricultural production though has applied slurry with least amount of chemical fertilizers. The purposive random sampling technique was used to carryout samples of biogas users (households already using the biogas plants). Primary data related to the households' socio-demographic and economic characteristics, including the motivation of using biogas plants were collected from 150 biogas user households. Data were analyzed by using statistical techniques (descriptive statistic, cross tabulation, frequency tables, means t- test, and Translog production function). The approach was used for estimating the efficiency level of Boro rice production with assistance of FRONTIER 4.1 software. A single output based multiple input frontier production approach has used to specify the production structure of rice farmers in Bangladesh. For this study, only Boro rice season is considered for analyzing due to it is the most contributory agricultural rice to national economy and having good memorized the using input data.Translog frontier model is applied for analyzing on biogas user frontier model. Slurry is treated as continuous variable for biogas user model due to often practice the slurry to the rice field.

Source of Information: J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 13(1): 101–108, 2015 ISSN 1810-3030

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Achievement/Findings:

The main objective of this chapter is to analyze the impact of slurry and chemical fertilizers to the farm efficiency by biogas user. It found the impact of slurry variables to have impact on farm technical efficiency. Slurry has a positive significant relationship with biogas user by which households can have increase the total output. That implies overall impact of slurry have found on total Boro production increasing due to increase soil fertility, with less chemical fertilizers and labor use, as well as reduce CO₂ emission, reducing the use of dry dung cake etc. But, chemical fertilizers have no more significant relation with biogas user. It found from previous studies that a traditional farmer is devoted to use more chemical fertilizers for producing more output, still households are behind from information of advantages of slurry use. The explanation for this case is to reduce the fertilizer use and increase the slurry use that make it more production and sustainable growth to the nation as well farm efficiency would be growing up. The stochastic production frontier examined households have potentiality to produce more with improvement of efficiency. Land is the most vital component for increasing Boro production. Labor has credibility to produce more output but need to take care of proper utilization. Irrigation is oxygen for Boro production in Bangladesh. It is one other most core inputs using for Boro rice production in winter season of Bangladesh. v Influences from other variables are found to be group specific. Farm size is one of the core inputs for reduce the inefficiency level for all groups. Compare to mean efficiency of biogas users and other traditional practioners, biogas user is notably superior performing. Thus, slurry can be played a significant role to reduce the practice of chemical fertilizers, save the significant amount of foreign currencies, less labor required due to low weed protection, low amount pesticide use, less CO₂emission, create a sustainable agricultural crops practices.

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