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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.

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