@article{Chowdhury:202686,
      recid = {202686},
      author = {Chowdhury, Nuimuddin and Khan, Kibria Masud and Kabir,  Mahfuzul},
      title = {DETERMINANTS OF RICE SUPPLY IN BANGLADESH : A CASE OF  PROFIT FUNCTION APPROACH USING CROSS SECTION DATA},
      journal = {Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics},
      address = {1994-12-31},
      number = {454-2016-36366},
      series = {XVII},
      pages = {15},
      month = {Dec},
      year = {1994},
      abstract = {As rising fertilizer prices translate into bleak  implication for "apparent" incentives for rice  production-an undoubtedly important segment of Bangladesh's  rural economy-a research question assumes key importance.  Of price and nonprice class of variables determining rice  output, which is more potent? We answer this question using  a cross-section data set for 1989/90 on the basis of a  profit-function based approach. Use of cross-section data  is justified on account of timeseries data being unable to  evaluate the absorption of fixed factors as required by the  analytical method chosen. This of course means that the  time frame is the long, and not the short run. We show that  prices overall are more often insignificant determinants of  rice output, while nonprice variables-farm size, the  adoption of high-yielding-variety (HYV) technology and  farmer's managerial ability-often register statistically  significant influences on rice supply. Within the class of  price variables, the wage rate is alone that decisively  matters to output in the aman season; fertiliser prices,  the cause of much recent discussion, do not make any  difference to output supply. In the long run, it is the  price of labour and not fertiliser prices that deserve more  analytical and policy attention. It is adaptive research  on, and the diffusion of, modern rice technology, and  access to education and capital by the farmer that is more  fundamentally important to rice production. In the  atmosphere of Bangladesh today, this finding, however trite  and shopworn, can take a wellattended recital, de novo.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/202686},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.202686},
}