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POTATO PRODUCTION SYSTEM IN BANGLADESH: RESOURCE USE, PRODUCTIVITY, EFFICIENCY AND COMPARATIVE PROFITABILITY OF TRUE POTATO SEED TECHNOLOGY OVER TRADITIONAL TUBER TECHNOLOGY
Article number
536_30
Pages
261 – 268
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Abstract
Potato is an important vegetable crop in Bangladesh.
It covered 56 thousand hectares (about 10 percent of cultivated area) with a total production of 1550 Mt in 1999. Bangladesh experienced much progress in its potato production in the past decades, it has increased by 5 percent per annum.
However, cost of tuber seed is an important constraint in potato production.
It accounts 35 to 40 percent of total production costs.
Attempts were taken by the potato scientist to introduce True Potato Seed (TPS) technology to reduce substantial production costs and increase potato productivity.
The present paper analysed productivity and resource use efficiency of potato production using TPS technology in the farmer’s field under Bangladesh environment using Cobb-Douglas production function and input costs data.
Also, it compared profitability of TPS technology with the traditional tuber technology.
Data were gathered from a sample of 200 growers located in major potato growing districts of Bogra and Jessore of Bangladesh.
The study revealed that resource use and management varied in two productions systems of TPS and tuber technology causing variability in costs and returns.
The TPS technology found to have a higher benefit-cost ratio (BCR) than the traditional technology.
It was revealed from efficiency analysis that the potato growers using TPS technology allocated their resources in rational stage of production (i.e., Stage IE). However, there exists inefficiency in the uses of human labour, seed, manure and fertilizers in TPS technology and had a potentiality to increase potato output by 20 percent with efficient organization of resources.
It covered 56 thousand hectares (about 10 percent of cultivated area) with a total production of 1550 Mt in 1999. Bangladesh experienced much progress in its potato production in the past decades, it has increased by 5 percent per annum.
However, cost of tuber seed is an important constraint in potato production.
It accounts 35 to 40 percent of total production costs.
Attempts were taken by the potato scientist to introduce True Potato Seed (TPS) technology to reduce substantial production costs and increase potato productivity.
The present paper analysed productivity and resource use efficiency of potato production using TPS technology in the farmer’s field under Bangladesh environment using Cobb-Douglas production function and input costs data.
Also, it compared profitability of TPS technology with the traditional tuber technology.
Data were gathered from a sample of 200 growers located in major potato growing districts of Bogra and Jessore of Bangladesh.
The study revealed that resource use and management varied in two productions systems of TPS and tuber technology causing variability in costs and returns.
The TPS technology found to have a higher benefit-cost ratio (BCR) than the traditional technology.
It was revealed from efficiency analysis that the potato growers using TPS technology allocated their resources in rational stage of production (i.e., Stage IE). However, there exists inefficiency in the uses of human labour, seed, manure and fertilizers in TPS technology and had a potentiality to increase potato output by 20 percent with efficient organization of resources.
Authors
S.M. Fakhrul Islam, Md. Mazharul Anwar, B. Manos
Keywords
Potato seed, production function, marginal product, allocative efficiency
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