PROFITABILITY AND RESOURCE USE EFFICIENCY OF BORO RICE BRRI DHAN-28 PRODUCTION IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF CHUADANGA DISTRICT IN BANGLADESH

Abstract

Bangladesh is predominantly an agrarian country where the contribution of agriculture intotal GDP is 13.74% and 40.6% people are directly involved with agriculture. Due to its verfertile land and favorable weather, varieties of crop grow abundantly in this country. It habeen persistently contributing to higher rice production in last successive years. Bangladesh has acquired third position of producing rice over the world in 2020. My present study wadesigned to measure the profitability and resource use efficiency of boro rice production insome selected areas of four villages named Morevanga, Keshobpur, Sheikhpara and Hatboalia under three unions of Alamdanga Upazilla in Chuadanga district. Primary datwere collected randomly from selected total 60 farmers from the study areas. Both tabulaand functional analyses were applied in this study. The major findings of the study reveal that boro production is profitable. Total cost of production of boro was Tk.141449.10 per hectareGross return of boro was Tk. 171857.00 per hectare and net returns of boro was Tk. 30407.90per hectare. Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) was found to be 1.21 which implies that one-takainvestment in boro production will be generated Tk.1.21. The coefficients of parameters likeFertilizer, Insecticide and Human labor were found positive and significant at 5, 5 and percent level of significant respectively where land preparation was negative at 5 percentlevel of significant. The other variables seed and irrigation coefficient were positive butinsignificant. The resource use efficiency of the samples seed (r=2.091) was onlunderutilized. The other variables as insecticides (0.3110), fertilizer (0.136), irrigation 0.346) and human labor (0.0832) were over utilized and the land preparation cost waindiscriminately over utilized. On that farm area most of the variables were over utilizewhich implied that they need to utilize the variables properly with reducing cost behind it forachieving the highly gross return. The study revealed that a considerable improvement took place to increase household income of the farmers in the study area and to improve thesocioeconomic conditions with the introduction of large-scale commercial boro production.The study also identified some problems and constraints faced by the boro farmers andsuggested some recommendations to improve the present production situation so that yield of boro would possibly be increased.