@article{Islam:200369,
      recid = {200369},
      author = {Islam, M. Rafiqul and Hossain, Mahabub and Jaim, W. M. H.},
      title = {TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF FARM PRODUCING TRANSPLANTED AMAN  RICE IN BANGLADESH: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AROMATIC FINE  AND COARSE VARIETIES},
      journal = {Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics},
      address = {2004-12-31},
      number = {454-2016-36661},
      series = {XXVII},
      pages = {24},
      month = {Dec},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {This study was conducted with the objective to estimate  technical efficiency of farm producing rice with special  emphasis on aromatic, fine and coarse rice varieties in  Bangladesh. This was done for understanding the  determinants of technical efficiency that may help  designing rice production profitably and minimizing  farmers' yield gap with given technology and resource  constraints and to provide future policy guidelines for  researchers and public support services. Farm-level  cross-section data were collected from one of the intensive  rice-growing areas of Dinajpur. A set of statistical and  non-statistical stochastic approaches to frontiers have  been used to estimate production efficiency. The  application of the translog stochastic production frontier  model gave the best fit for technical efficiency analysis.  The estimated mean efficiency was 97% for aromatic, 98% for  fine, and 85% for coarse rice farmers indicating that there  is little scope of increasing yield without breaking the  yield frontier particularly for aromatic and fine rice  through introduction of high yield potential varieties. For  coarse rice varieties, 15-16% yield could be increased even  with the existing varieties, if the management practices of  the parameters identified in this study are improved.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/200369},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.200369},
}