Shifting Cultivation and its Alternatives in Bangladesh: Productivity, Risk and Discount Rates

M. A. Monayem Miah and S. M. Fakhrul Islam

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Abstract: This study evaluates the economic feasibility of replacing shifting cultivation (Jhum) with settled agriculture and new soil conservation technology based on an assessment of the farmers’ risk and corresponding discount rates in the Khagrachari hill district of Bangladesh.

Keywords: soil erosion; MSFO; rate of return; discount rate; property rights; Bangladesh; economic; feasibility; soil; conservation; technology; farmer's; agriculture; Shifting (Jhum) cultivation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-07
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