Abstract:
The study was aimed to assess the cost, return, and profitability of ginger farming in
specific districts of Bangladesh. It has potential to be marketed both domestically and
internationally. Bangladesh's Nilphamari district makes a major contribution to the
nation's overall production of ginger. In this region, the climate and land composition are
suitable for ginger growth. The aim of this study is to explore the performance of ginger
cultivating in this district and to identify the challenges and prospects of ginger cultivation
.This research made use of primary data. The study indicates that the gross margin, net
return, and return per hectare were found to be Tk.738038.76, Tk.568259.09, and
Tk.1053910.6 respectively. Necessary descriptive and statistical analyses are done to
achieve the objectives. The Cobb-Douglas production function was used to assess the
impacts of various inputs on ginger cultivation, and the undiscounted benefit-cost ratio
for ginger cultivation was 2.17 in this study. The result found that ginger cultivation was
profitable. According to the Cobb-Douglas production function, ginger production has a
decreasing return to scale. The model's co-efficient of multiple determination R
was 0.40
for ginger cultivation, indicating that the explanatory variables included in the model
explained approximately 40% of the variation in gross return .Farmers in the research
region stated that challenges such as the occurrence of root rot disease, high seed prices,
insect infestation, and so on are major problems for their production and require the
attention of the appropriate authority to solve.
Description:
A thesis submitted to the department of Agricultural Economics, Sher-e-Bangla
Agricultural University, Dhaka, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
