Farmer Education and Productivity in Nepal Agriculture

• Hu Bai

  Ehime University

• Nainabasti Achyut

  United Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Ehime University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• ネパール農業における学校教育の増収効果
• ネパール ノウギョウ ニ オケル ガッコウ キョウイク ノ ゾウシュウ コウカ

Abstract

This paper analyzes the effect of education in improving farm productivity and the production response of conventional input in Nepal cereal production, by a case study of 200 farmers of Chitwan district. A model combining Mincerian earning function and Cobb-Douglas production function is developed to estimate the percentage increase in response to unit change in education and the values of production elasticity of conventional input in paddy rice and total cereals, respectively. A significant response to conventional input is found in total cereals, and in paddy rice except labor. The effect of education in improving farm productivity is confirmed at a significant level of >1% in total cereals, and 10% in paddy rice. A return to scale is also found. These results suggest that the increase in conventional input and investment in education will substantially improve agricultural productivity, which therefore will effectively contribute to reducing poverty in the country.

Journal

• Journal of Rural Problems

  Journal of Rural Problems 44 (1), 14-23, 2008

  The Association for Regional Agricultural and Forestry Economics

Details

• CRID: 1390282679466430336
• NII Article ID: 10021227113
• NII Book ID: AN00202829
• DOI: 10.7310/arfe1965.44.14
• ISSN: 21859973
• ISSN: 03888525
• NDL BIB ID: 9593177
• Web Site: https://agriknowledge.affrc.go.jp/RN/2010781884
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I9593177
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