Hybrid Rice: Economic Assessment of a Promising Technology for Sustainable Food Grain Production in Bangladesh
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Hybrid rice, one of the viable and proven technologies has been considered as a new frontier
to increase rice production for meeting growing demand for staple food in Bangladesh. Using
farm survey data this paper examines comparative profitability of hybrid and inbred rice
cultivation and estimates a Stochastic Frontier Function to determine the effect of key
variables on farm efficiency. Results show that hybrid rice gives substantially higher yield as
well as net return compared to inbred rice which leads to increase and sustainable growth of
food grain production. Analysis of Stochastic Frontier model shows hybrid rice farms are
technically more efficient than inbred.