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The impact of floods on the adoption rate of high‐yielding rice varieties in Bangladesh
Author(s) -
Azam JeanPaul
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1574-0862
pISSN - 0169-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-0862.1996.tb00386.x
Subject(s) - flood myth , econometrics , logistic function , economics , econometric model , agricultural economics , statistics , mathematics , agricultural science , geography , environmental science , archaeology
This paper analyses econometrically the impact of floods on the rate of adoption of high‐yielding varieties (HYVs) of rice in Bangladesh. It uses a small model combining a modified logistic adoption function with a model of the process generating expectations errors by the farmers which encompasses most other expectation hypotheses. Using pooled cross‐section and time‐series data at the district level, the econometric results show a significant negative impact of expected flood damage on the HYV adoption rate of ‘aman’ rice. Moreover, it is shown that the adoption of HYV ‘boro’ rice is governed by essentially the same equation.