Knowledge and information related to all aspects of crop-pest system are the foundations on which modern pest management decisions are based. The transfer of research and extension information to farmers plays the key role in the adoption of integrated Pest Management (IPM). FuzzyXPest is proposed to provide information to the farmers and researchers through the Internet using fuzzy expert syst...

Indonesia is the world’s largest importer of its staple food, rice. This commodity accounts for large shares of both consumers’ budgets and total employment. Since the economic crisis of 1998, rice import policy has become increasingly protectionist and since early 2004, imports have been officially banned. Advocates of this policy have claimed that by raising domestic rice prices it reduces po...

This study computes the eco-efficiency of High Yielding Variety (HYV) rice production by including an on-farm environmental damage index (OFEDI) as an undesirable output using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and then identifies its determinants by applying an interval regression procedure on a sample of 317 farmers from north-western Bangladesh. Results reveal that the mean level of the OFEDI-a...

This study assessed the determinants of intensity of improved rice varieties adoption using the Tobit model and also employed. The Heckman Two-stage model was used to identify the determinants of market participation and its potential impact on farming households’ welfare in three states selected from the three notable rice producing ecologies in Nigeria. A crosssectional data of 600 rice farme...

abstract present study used translog cost function for determining break point of paddy farms. requested data set include inputs’ prices and quantities, and production amounts had been acquired from 500 rice farmers of guilan province at 2009. model used in this study is seemingly unrelated regressions (sur). the results showed that labor and pesticides had the highest and lowest share of produ...

The aims of this study are to measure the technical efficiency (TE) of Cambodian household’s rice production and trying to determine its main influencing factors using the stochastic frontier production function. The study utilized primary data collected from 301 rice farmers in three selected districts of Battambang by structured questionnaires. The empirical results indicated the level of hou...

The purpose of this study was to survey impacts of drought on Socio-economic conditions of Guilan Paddy farmers. Besides recognizing these impacts, it ranked them according to the viewpoint of the Paddy farmers. It was of the descriptive- correlation type. Questionnaire was the main tool of this study. To determine the validity of questionnaire used of comments of panel experts and reliability ...

the present study investigated factors affecting risk management by women rice farmers in the township of sari in iran. the statistical population comprised 1677 women who cultivate rice in sari; 248 women were selected for the study using stratified random sampling. the data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics with spsswin16 software. the chronbach’s alpha was 0.84 and th...

To obtain higher yields, farmers may excessively use pesticides when they grow crops (like rice, vegetables, or fruit), causing moral hazard behavior. This paper examines how Chinese farmers’ moral hazard behavior in crop production is influenced by their traditional culture. A semi-parametric logistic model is used to investigate the impact of Chinese traditional culture on farmers’ moral haza...