IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/bdbjaf/202546.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Technical Change And Elasticity Of Factor Demand In Rice Production In Bangladesh

Author

Listed:
  • Kamruzzaman, M.
  • Alam, Md. Ferdous
  • Abedin, Joynal

Abstract

The study was undertaken with a view to finding the technical change in agriculture and factor demand status of the rice crop of Bangladesh. The production technology of the farmers was represented by the translogarithmic cost function. The data were collected from secondary sources. The findings revealed that there was a complementary relationship between the human labor and bullock labor, bullock labor and fertilizer, seeds and fertilizer, seeds and irrigation and fertilizer and irrigation. However, substitutory relationship was observed between human labor and irrigation, human labor and seeds, human labor and fertilizer, bullock labor and seeds and bullock labor and irrigation. The own and cross price elasticities of factor demand were all inelastic indicating that farmers response to changes in the price of inputs were small in magnitude. Rice production technology of Bangladesh appeared to be both labor and capital intensive. This situation may be treated as a transition to the modernization of agriculture.

Suggested Citation

  • Kamruzzaman, M. & Alam, Md. Ferdous & Abedin, Joynal, 1996. "Technical Change And Elasticity Of Factor Demand In Rice Production In Bangladesh," Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, vol. 19(1-2), pages 1-14, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:bdbjaf:202546
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.202546
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/202546/files/Article_02%20Vol-XIX.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.202546?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Production Economics;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:bdbjaf:202546. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/febaubd.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.