SOCIAL PROFITABILITY OF ALTERNATIVE RICE VARIETIES IN PAKISTAN: Basmati vs. IRRI

Rauf Azhar and Fakhre Mahmud

Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, 1984, vol. 3, issue 2, 139-156

Abstract: Pakistan’s rice export earnings have increased remarkably since the early 70’s. Of the two major varieties grown and exported, it is the traditional variety,Basmati, which has shown an enormous potential for export earnings. The other variety, namely IRRI, was introduced in the midst of the green revolution. Although IRRI’s yield has been higher as compared to Basmati, the latter has fetched a very high price in the international market. This paper attempts to estimate the social profitability of the two varieties and shows that Basmati enjoys a much higher profitability viz-a-viz IRRI. The policy implication is that the cultivation of Basmati needs to be encouraged by direct price incentives and other means.

Date: 1984
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://aerc.edu.pk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/3rd-Paper-Page-139-156-1.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pje:journl:article1984winii

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics from Applied Economics Research Centre Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Samina Khalil ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).