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Relationship between fertilizer consumption and labour supply in Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Parikh Ashok
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.4010030104
Subject(s) - fertilizer , consumption (sociology) , economics , agricultural economics , cross sectional data , econometrics , agronomy , social science , sociology , biology
The objectives of this paper are to estimate fertilizer consumption relationships using Bangladesh farm‐level survey data for the year 1981‐82. Various hypotheses were put to a test and it was found that structural, environmental and institutional factors were important in explaining farmers' use of fertilizers for rice crop. The price elasticity of fertilizer demand ranged between −0.72 to −0.78 on cross‐section data. Fertilizers and hired labour were complements, with a non‐price definition while with a price definition they were substitutes.