@article{Munia:303818,
      recid = {303818},
      author = {Munia, Z.T. and Islam, S. and Akhi, K. and Islam, M.S.},
      title = {Economics of small scale commercial banana farming in  tangail district of Bangladesh},
      journal = {International Journal of Agricultural Research, Innovation  and Technology (IJARIT)},
      address = {2019-12-31},
      number = {2355-2020-1129},
      month = {Dec},
      year = {2019},
      abstract = {This study was conducted to analyze the profitability of  banana farming in some selected areas of Tangail district  of Bangladesh during 2015. A total of 60 samples (16 small,  19 medium and 25 large farmers) were directly interviewed  using a structured questionnaire for achieving the purpose.  Apart from the descriptive analysis of the socio-economic  variables of the selected respondents, the benefit-cost and  functional profitability analysis of banana farming were  also performed. The Cobb-Douglas production function was  chosen to determine the effects of various inputs on the  profitability of banana. The finding of cost-benefit  analysis reveals that banana farming is a profitable  activity in Bangladesh as the estimated cost of production  was lower than the return in the selected study areas.  However, the profitability differs among different farmers’  group and large farmers are more profitable in banana  farming than small and medium farmers. In addition, the  functional analysis identifies four inputs such as the cost  of human labor, manure, fertilizer and irrigation as the  significant determinants of profitability of banana farming  in the study area. In this study, resource use efficiency  was also measured to show the efficient resource allocation  to attain the goal of profit maximization which showed that  human labor, seedling, manure, fertilizer, insecticides,  irrigation and bamboo has inefficient use of the resources,  and farmers should limit the use of these inputs. The  researcher suggested some recommendations to improve the  present production situation so that banana farming could  be more viable and attractive commercial enterprise.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/303818},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.303818},
}