Mohammad Taj Uddin
Laboratory of Socioeconomic Science of Food Production, Graduate School ofBioagricultural Sciences,
Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Hiroyuki Takeya
Laboratory of Socioeconomic Science of Food Production, Graduate School ofBioagricultural Sciences,
Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the study was to analyze the resource interdependence among different agricultural enterprises and to quantify how and how much the product, by-product and waste of one enterprise were used as input for another enterprise and to explore the nature of enterprise combination. It is found that the interdependence of resources was higher in landless, marginal and small farmers compared to medium and large farmers. However, land topography, soil composition and availability of different inputs along with the environmental factors influence the farmers in choosing different enterprises. It is revealed that insertion of vegetables into rice-based cropping pattern, cropping pattern with green manuring and rice with fish farming not only change the rice-based conventional farming but also enhance the soil fertility which in turn leads total production and income. Landless, marginal, small and medium farmers` return from integrated farming was higher and integrated farming was viable over conventional farming.
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Mohammad Taj Uddin and Hiroyuki Takeya, 2005. Resource Interdependence and Enterprise Combination of Integrated Farming in Some Selected Areas of Bangladesh. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 8: 405-412.
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2005.405.412
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2005.405.412
DOI: 10.3923/pjbs.2005.405.412
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=pjbs.2005.405.412