Mst. Minara Khatun|Md. Abdur Rashid|M. A. Monayem Miah|S Khandoker|MN Islam
Profitability of sandbar cropping method of pumpkin cultivation in char land areas of northern Bangladesh
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute|Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute|Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute|Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute
study undertaken find profitability export potentialities pumpkin cultivation char lands rangpur gaibandha district bangladesh total 120 pumpkin growers taking 60 farmers district randomly selected study descriptive statistics used analyze cost return pumpkin cobbdouglass production function used estimate coefficients various variables analysed mpp mvp resource use efficiency also used estimate efficiency resource use study area study revealed net returns positive pumpkin cultivation however higher net return estimated rangpur district tk 105299ha compared gaibandha tk93 936ha bangladesh comparative advantage producing pumpkin estimates domestic resource cost drc less one value drc pumpkin less unity implied production pumpkin would highly efficient export promotion estimated results cobbdouglass production function showed increasing returns scale results efficiency computation indicated inputs underutilized farmers study area used little input cultivate pumpkin means cost using inputs less value marginal product suggests farmers incur cost inputs efficient production increasedbangladesh j agril res 424 647663 december 2017