Abstract
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 Apoproach (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.J. Bangladesh Agril. Univ. 13(1): 101-108, June 2015
Highlights
The traditional cultivation procedure leads to create different environmental difficulties and challenges like, Bangladesh facing the problems on soil erosion, soil acidity, imbalance of nutrients in the soil, biodiversity and overall environmental degradation, one can recognize, it is ultimate result of Green Revolution (Mendoza, 2002)
BBS (2011) shows that the average production of HYV of Boro rice per acre produced in Bangladesh was 1.9 ton whichwas far behind from the average production of biogas users
The reasons behind for this difference of national average and finding mean of Boro rice production are to have the differences of off-farm income, education between national and biogas user households and the biogas user applied the slurry for producing more production as well as maintaining the soil fertility
Summary
The traditional cultivation procedure leads to create different environmental difficulties and challenges like, Bangladesh facing the problems on soil erosion, soil acidity, imbalance of nutrients in the soil, biodiversity and overall environmental degradation, one can recognize, it is ultimate result of Green Revolution (Mendoza, 2002). Et al, (2012) found that agriculture sector is responsible for 20-30% of global greenhouse gas emissions This conventional method of growing rice is using chemical fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation and herbicides, etc. Depletion of organic matter is often an important factor in the process of soil fertility decline. Ultimate studies have examined that overapplication of some nutrients and under-application of others have led to decrease production efficiency conclusions (Islam, 2006). It is already intensified the farm household’s real and burden on high-cash capital expenses (Mendoza, 2003) as well in Bangladesh, rice farming is treated as a non-profit business for rural areas (Sarker and Itohara, 2008). Organic farming could be an alternative for right choice for farmers who have adopted as an alternative highly profitable farming enterprise compare to the conventional farming (FiBL, 2004; Rubinos et al, 2007)
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