PROFITABILITY OF RICE FARMING PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY OF YANAUNGMYINE VILLAGE TRACT, DEKKHINATHIRI TOWNSHIP, IN NAY PYI TAW UNION TERRITORY
Abstract
- This research paper is primarily intended to investigate the relationship between local farmer practices and their farm input cost and return cost of rice production. Major objectives of this paper are; (i) to investigate the current farming systems in the study area, (ii) to observe and study the socio-economic characteristics of the selected farmers (ii) to assess and compare the household income and household expenditure (iv) to analyze how far farmers benefited from rice cultivation. Relevant data will be elicited from both the primary and secondary sources. Questionnaires and open interviews are the main instrument for data collection. Data analysis will be carried out using quantitative analyses, qualitative assessment and benefit cost ratio analysis. It is found that household expenditure, farmer’s income and outcome are affected by different groups of each social characteristic of the selected farmers. According to the assessment, it is found out that backwardness, poverty stagnant agriculture, lack of alternative income and employment and environmental degradation are components of an integrated problem in the Village Tract. There is a need for enhancing employment and income generation activities in the study area. Revolution of the farming systems is a strategy for rural income growth and poverty reduction in the village tract.
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Year
- 2021
Author
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Thin Thin Myat
Subject
- Geography
Publisher
- Myanmar Academy of Arts and Science (MAAS)