Download or read book Rice Procurement and Producer Price Case for Bangladesh written by Mohammad Ashraf and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the theoretical and practical impacts of the government procurement policy on rice producer price in Bangladesh agriculture. The policy, basically, aims at procuring a targeted amount of rice and wheat at predetermined prices in order to protect the producers' income by stabilizing food prices and to provide foods to specified target-groups of consumers in course of normal time as well as in emergency period. The study conducted econometric analyses with twenty five years data collected from various government and private sources. The empirical finding of the study indicates that the rice producers are unlikely benefited from this policy even in the short run because of the potential caveats in the theoretical model and in its implementation. In effect, government intervention in terms of procuring food-stuffs deserves further review in order to reach its targeted objectives.
Download or read book Boro rice procurement in Bangladesh Implications for policy written by Ahmed, Akhter and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Boro” is the dry season irrigated rice crop planted from December to early February and harvested between April and June. In 2018/2019, the total production of rice in Bangladesh was 36,391,000 (36.4 million) metric tons (MT), of which boro rice accounted for 53.8 percent; aman rice, 38.6 percent; and aus rice, 7.6 percent. In 2019, paddy prices in Bangladesh were depressed due to a bumper harvest of the boro rice crop. Average paddy price was Tk 17.42 per kg in January 2019 after the aman harvest, but declined by 22 percent to Tk 13.56 per kg in May 2019 (DAM 2020). Farmers complained that they did not receive price support from the Government when paddy prices did not cover their production costs. In response to this situation, the USAID-funded Bangladesh Policy Research and Strategy Support Program (PRSSP) implemented by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) actively engaged in policy dialogues, and the media extensively covered IFPRI’s analysis and policy recommendations on this issue. On 20 May 2019, the IFPRI Country Representative presented policy options on how to improve farmers’ situation, as related to the low paddy price issue, during a policy seminar at the Agricultural Policy Support Unit (APSU) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. On 11 June 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture requested IFPRI-PRSSP to conduct a study jointly with APSU to assess the paddy price issue. IFPRI agreed to carry out the study. The objectives of this study are to (1) assess to what extent boro farmers were able to sell their paddy to the Government at the announced procurement price; (2) evaluate the efficacy of the direct paddy procurement from farmers by the Government, in order to help farmers overcome low paddy prices in the future; and (3) examine ways to improve the foodgrain procurement system. This report presents IFPRI’s study findings and identifies policy options to address the study objectives.
Download or read book The Changing Public Role in a Rice Economy Approaching Self sufficiency written by Francesco Goletti and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prospects for continuous growth in rice yields have been examined within the context of a simulation model where demand parameters for both rural and urban populations and for different income groups have been used. Coupled with available estimates of supply response parameters, the prospects for a rice surplus in year 2000 appear moderate. On average, only 157,000 metric tons of rice surplus would result if current prices were to prevail. If prices were allowed to adjust, only a negligible price decline would result. That is also the case in the more favorable scenario of high growt of rice yields. Domestic demand would be capable of absorbing the increased rice surplus without an appreciable decline in price. The analysis of the proposal to support rice prices through procurement of domestic production has led to the conclusion that even massive increase of domestic procurement would result in very small price increases while at the same time causing serious storage capacity and budgetary problems for the government.
Download or read book Rice price stabilization in Bangladesh Assessing the impact of public farm gate and consumer price stabilization policy instruments on the overall grain market and developing policy orientations with a greater role for the private sector written by Minot, Nicholas and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Price instability is a fact of life. In a market economy, domestic prices change in response to changes in supply, consumer preferences, policy, world prices, and other factors. Crop prices tend to be particularly volatile because harvests occur only once or a few times per year and because the size of the harvest varies due to weather, prices, and other factors. For internationally-traded commodities, volatility in world prices can be another source of instability in domestic prices.
Download or read book Agricultural Price Policies Under Complex Socioeconomic and Natural Constraints written by Raisuddin Ahmed and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1981 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research report on the effect of agricultural price price policy for agricultural production in Bangladesh - examines the case of rice and Jute, land utilization, production costs, supply and demand, irrigation, agricultural surplus, etc., and discusses implications for agricultural employment and rural welfare. Bibliography pp. 74 to 78 and graphs.
Download or read book Rice Price Fluctuation and an Approach to Price Stabilization in Bangladesh written by Raisuddin Ahmed and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction; Price stabilization issues; Fluctuation in rice prices; Causes of luctuations in annual and seasonal prices; Intermarket links and regional prices; An approach to price stabilization.
Download or read book Foodgrain Supply Distribution and Consumption Policies Within a Dual Pricing Mechanism written by Raisuddin Ahmed and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1979 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research report on food policies in relation to grain food security and food consumption in Bangladesh - discusses impact of administered price rationing and market price on supply and demand of wheat and rice, of price support and fertilizer subsidy on agricultural production, and of food aid on poverty relief in rural areas and urban areas, and presents policy recommendations. Bibliography pp. 80 and 81, graphs and statistical tables.
Download or read book Assessing the impact of rice price stabilization policies in Bangladesh Results from a stochastic spatial equilibrium model written by Minot, Nicholas and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rice plays a central role in the diet in Bangladesh and as a source of income for farmers. Although Bangladesh has largely liberalized international trade in rice, it maintains a public food distribution system to stablize prices, distributing an average of 2 million tons of rice per year at a cost of almost US$ 800 million per year. This study explores whether alternative policies could achieve similar stabilization at a lower cost. It uses a stochastic spatial-equilibrium model of rice markets to simulate monthly prices in eight regions of the country. Stochastic shocks are used to simulate fluctuations in regional production, replicating historical patterns at the region-season level, as well as inter-regional correlation in production shocks. It also simulates fluctuation in world rice prices, mimicking the mean, variance, and serial correlation of historical wholesale prices of rice in Delhi. Public procurement and distribution follow historic averages by month and region. Private storage is represented by a simplified version of rational expectations models, in which net storage is a non-linear function of availability in the previous month. One set of simulations tests alternative levels of distribution, finding that cutting distribution to 1 million tons would have minimal effects on the level of rice price stability. Another set of simulations tested different import tariff levels, including the baseline rate of 25%1. We find that lower tariffs result in both lower rice prices and less price instability, as world rice prices tend to be more stable than local prices. Simulating a buffer stock with different price bands shows that a narrow band can achieve high price stability but at a high fiscal cost. A 20 T/kg (USD 0.26/kg) price band generates similar price stabilization at a lower cost compared to current policy. However, it is difficult to set the “right” purchase and sale price, and many simulations result in exhausting reserves or reaching warehouse capacity. An adaptive buffer stock, in which the price is adjusted as the stock runs too low or too high, solves some of these problems. In general, the study finds that current procurement and distribution patterns do not match well with the regional and monthly patterns of surplus and deficit, possibly reflecting multiple and conflicting goals of the public food distribution system.
Download or read book Evaluating food policy options in Bangladesh Analysis of costs benefits and tradeoffs between targeted distribution versus public agricultural and infrastructure investments written by Dorosh, Paul A. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bangladesh has successfully improved national food security over the last two decades, primarily by increasing rice production and consumption. However, the country’s food system remains vulnerable to periodic floods and droughts that seriously affect agricultural production and prices. While food imports can cushion the effects of these short-term climate shocks, there is always uncertainty about whether shortages in global commodity markets will coincide with domestic production shortfalls, leading to particularly adverse outcomes, especially for poor farmers and net consumers. This is one of the reasons why Bangladesh’s government has maintained a long-standing public grain procurement and storage system, as well as a large social protection program that distributes subsidized rice and wheat to poor households. These programs, together with investments in farm productivity, have enhanced the resilience of Bangladesh’s food system to climate and world market shocks. Heightened climate variability in recent years has also led the government to increase stocks and make substantial new investments to expand public grain storage capacity.
Download or read book Postharvest Losses Technology And Employment written by Martin Greeley and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a Bangladesh case study of the farm-level postharvest system. There are two main objectives. First, to use measured estimates of food loss to test (and reject) the conventional assumptions: that postharvest farm-level food losses are large; that they can be prevented cost-effectively by technical change; and that as a consequence, there will be more food consumption by hungry people. Commonly, none of these assumptions are true and the evidence from Bangladesh, plus supporting evidence from elsewhere, is used to show why they are wrong.
Download or read book Market Transition and Price wage Dynamics written by K. A. S. Murshid and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out of the shadow of famine written by Ahmed, Raisuddin and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2000-04-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how Bangladesh transformed its food markets and food policies to free the country from the constant threat of famine. Since 1990, the Bangladeshi government has dismantled its food rationing system, privatized grain distribution, eased restrictions on international trade, and reduced its own presence in grain markets. The foundation for these developments was laid in the preceding decades. Improvements in agricultural science in the 1970s roughly doubled farm yields, while in the 1980s liberalization of irrigation restrictions, the lifting of import barriers to irrigation technology, and the privatization of fertilizer distribution rapidly increased rice cultivation. These increases in production, coupled with improvements in infrastructure and a more slowly growing and increasingly urban population, have substantially changed the structure of food grain markets, leading to increased marketing volumes, lower prices, and significantly larger private grain stocks. The book sets the Bangladeshi case in the larger context of the South Asian subcontinent and other developing countries in Asia. The authors examine the shifting structure of supply and demand in the grain markets, the history of government intervention in those markets, and the more recent changes that altered the arguments for such intervention and led to policy changes. The case of Bangladesh also has more general relevance as a study of the outcomes of a market-oriented reform program.
Download or read book Determination of Procurement Price of Rice in Bangladesh written by Raisuddin Ahmed and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science and Technology Innovation for a Sustainable Economy written by Mazharul M. Islam and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the subject of pathways to a sustainable economy through science and technology innovations which are regarded as the important components of the ‘4th Industrial Revolution’. The volume has been developed from Bangladesh’s ‘Vision 2041’ agenda which includes development actions needed to catch up with more developed nations. Most importantly, the goals of the ‘Vision 2041’ have been taken from the dreams of the architect of independent Bangladesh, Bangabandhu (Friends of Bengal) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. His dream was to make Bangladesh the Switzerland of Asia. The Father of Bangladesh Nation was killed by assassins’ bullets along with his most of the family members in August 1975. After his death, the nation moved backwards while recovering from nine months of liberation post war in 1971. Between 1975 and 1990 Bangladesh was ruled by military and quasi military governments. Bangladesh established a true democratic regime in 1996 with Sheikh Mujib’s daughter, Sheikh Hasina, who formed the government after 21 years with a mandate to realise the dreams of her father. Sheikh Hasina, had her own 20 year vision for Bangladesh, called, ‘Vision 2021’, with plans to make the nation poverty free by 2021. After a pause between 2001 and 2008, Sheikh Hasina returned to power in 2009. Under her consecutive three terms she brought Bangladesh back on track and Bangladesh is one of the nations which reduced poverty half under MDGs by 2015. During her third consecutive term Sheikh Hasina, is on the way to transforming Bangladesh into a ‘middle income’ nation by 2021. This volume aims to identify and mitigate the challenges of ‘4th Industrial Revolution’ investigating the areas of science and technology innovations for Bangladesh and for other parts of the world keeping in mind establishing a sustainable economy under UN agendas to 2030 (SDGs). The primary audience for this book are UN development agencies, academic institutions, government policymakers and business leaders of the more developed and developing nations alike.
Download or read book Rice Research Technological Progress and Impacts on the Poor The Bangladesh Case Summary Report written by Mahabub Hossain, David Lewis, Manik L. Bose, and Alamgir Chowdhury and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rice Selected Aspects of Production Trade and Price Policies written by and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1985 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foodgrain price stabilization in developing countries written by Nurul Islam and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief summary of the analytics of price stabilization; Some operational aspects of food price stabilization policies; Alternatives to price stabilization: crop insurance and futures markets; Price stabilization policy: rationale and objectives; Design and implementation of stabilization policy; Impact of stabilization policy on price variability over time and across countries; Some quantitative estimates of the benefits of stabilization; Rethinking price stabilization policy.
