Efficiency Change and Resource Use in Thailand Rice Production

Efficiency Change and Resource Use in Thailand Rice Production
Title Efficiency Change and Resource Use in Thailand Rice Production PDF eBook
Author Orawan Butso
Publisher
Pages 304
Release 2010
Genre Panel analysis
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White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin

White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin
Title White Gold: The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin PDF eBook
Author Rob Cramb
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 462
Release 2020-01-03
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9811509980

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This open access book is about understanding the processes involved in the transformation of smallholder rice farming in the Lower Mekong Basin from a low-yielding subsistence activity to one producing the surpluses needed for national self-sufficiency and a high-value export industry. For centuries, farmers in the Basin have regarded rice as “white gold”, reflecting its centrality to their food security and well-being. In the past four decades, rice has also become a commercial crop of great importance to Mekong farmers, augmenting but not replacing its role in securing their subsistence. This book is based on collaborative research to (a) compare the current situation and trajectories of rice farmers within and between different regions of the Lower Mekong, (b) explore the value chains linking rice farmers with new technologies and input and output markets within and across national borders, and (c) understand the changing role of government policies in facilitating the on-going evolution of commercial rice farming. An introductory section places the research in geographical and historical context. Four major sections deal in turn with studies of rice farming, value chains, and policies in Northeast Thailand, Central Laos, Southeastern Cambodia, and the Mekong Delta. The final section examines the implications for rice policy in the region as a whole.

A Study on Rice Production and Consumption in Thailand

A Study on Rice Production and Consumption in Thailand
Title A Study on Rice Production and Consumption in Thailand PDF eBook
Author Wanrop ʻItsarāngkūn Na ʻAyutthayā
Publisher
Pages 74
Release 1966*
Genre Rice
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Assessing Economic and Environmental Efficiency of Rice Production Systems in Southern Thailand

Assessing Economic and Environmental Efficiency of Rice Production Systems in Southern Thailand
Title Assessing Economic and Environmental Efficiency of Rice Production Systems in Southern Thailand PDF eBook
Author Sirirat Kiatpathomchai
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2008
Genre
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A Study on Rice Production and Consumption in Thailand

A Study on Rice Production and Consumption in Thailand
Title A Study on Rice Production and Consumption in Thailand PDF eBook
Author Vanrob Isrankura
Publisher
Pages 76
Release 1966
Genre Dissertations, Academic
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An Evaluation of the Impact of the Rice Agricultural Land Reform Settlement Project in Thailand

An Evaluation of the Impact of the Rice Agricultural Land Reform Settlement Project in Thailand
Title An Evaluation of the Impact of the Rice Agricultural Land Reform Settlement Project in Thailand PDF eBook
Author Para Jansuwan
Publisher
Pages
Release 2014
Genre
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The Rice Agricultural Land Reform Settlement Project (RALRSP) is the project that was undertaken in accordance with the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand, the government policy, and the policy of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (MOAC). It has objectives to create balance and resilience to agricultural sector, to increase capacity of food and energy crops production, and to support new generation of farmers who are the agriculture students and those interested in farming. The project areas include RALRS in 12 provinces, such as RALRS in Chaloem Phra Kiat District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province; RALRS in Phichai District, Auttaradit Province; RALRS in Chumphon Buri District, Surin Province; and RALRS in Ubon Ratchathani Province. The important activities of the project include infrastructure development, knowledge and technology support, market opportunity creation, and farmer group formation mechanism development.Since rice is an important economic crop for Thailand. And the preliminary project impact evaluation by the Centre for Project and Programme Evaluation (CPPE) employed only data of participating agricultural households from surveying by CPPE and measure the project impact simply by Input, Process, Output, Outcome Model (IPOO Model) that compare only simple statistics of the project result before and after implementing the project. Therefore, the project should be evaluate by employing data of non participating agricultural household from other source and measuring the project impact by other impact evaluation techniques that can show the real impact of the project. This evaluation has objectives to evaluate the impact of the project on land using efficiency, rice production efficiency, and net cash income from rice production. The scope of the evaluation includes 9 RALRSs that were established between 2010 and 2012. The data used include data of participating agricultural households from survey of CPPE and data of non participating agricultural households from Agricultural Household Socio Economics Survey (AHSES) of the Centre for Agricultural Information (CAI). The impact evaluation techniques used include the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and the Difference in Differences Approach (DID).For the preliminary result of the project impact evaluation by CPPE, it shows that implementing 9 RALRSs did not affect the efficiency of land utilization. However, it shows that implementing 9 RALRSs affect positively the efficiency of rice production and net cash income from rice production. After the project, agricultural households in 9 RALRSs could increase rice production on the average to 1,668.78 kilogram per Acre. And they received increased net cash income on the average to 261.30 Euro per Acre. For the result of this thesis, it also shows that implementing 9 RALRSs did not affect the land using efficiency. However, it shows that implementing 9 RALRSs and RALRS in the central and southern regions, especially improving canal system and providing services on machinery and marketing equipment, affect positively and negatively the rice production efficiency and net cash income. After the project, if agricultural households in RALRS in the central and southern regions benefit from improving canals system, their rice production efficiency and net cash income will be increased by 2,381.55 kilogram per Acre and 311.94 Euro per Acre respectively. While if they benefit from services on machinery and marketing equipment, their rice production efficiency will be decreased by 220.03 kilogram per Acre. For agricultural households in 9 RALRSs, if they benefit from improving canals system, their net cash income will be increased by 260.16 Euro per Acre.From these results of the project impact evaluation, implementing the project and a similar project in the future the responsible agencies should undertake the following:1. Continuing canal systems improvement in successful areas, and applying the improvement in a similar project in order to ensuring agricultural households can access to water sources for cultivating rice by undertaking, such as dredging canals, and constructing and repairing electric pumping station.2. Finishing the project implementations that did not affect increase in rice production efficiency and net cash income, such as providing training on rice cultivation, distributing material for soil improvement, and providing services on machinery and marketing equipment, and use remaining budget of these activities to do activities on improving the canal systems.3. Improving those unaffected implementations in order for agricultural households to fully benefit from these implementations by undertaking, such as organizing training on rice cultivation only on the topics that agricultural households are interested in and distributing material for soil improvement to agricultural households before cropping season.

Producing More Rice with Less Water from Irrigated Systems

Producing More Rice with Less Water from Irrigated Systems
Title Producing More Rice with Less Water from Irrigated Systems PDF eBook
Author Luis Catasús Guerra
Publisher IWMI
Pages 33
Release 1998
Genre Agricultural productivity
ISBN 9290903694

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Over the past decade, we have witnessed a growing scarcity of and competition for water around the world. As the demand for water for domestic, municipal, industrial, and environmental purposes rises in the future, less water will be available for agriculture. But the potentials for new water resource development projects and expanding irrigated area are limited. We must therefore find ways to increase the productivity of water used for irrigation. This paper reviews the literature on irrigation efficiency and on the potential for increasing the productivity of water in rice-based systems. It stresses the continuing confusion over the concepts of irrigation efficiency and water productivity. It identifies the reasons for the wide gap between water requirement and actual water input (both irrigation diversions and rainfall) in irrigated rice production systems and discusses potential opportunities for increasing water productivity both on-farm and at the system level. Based on the reported low farm and system level irrigation efficiencies, the potentials for water savings in rice production appear to be very large. But we do not know the degree to which various farm and system interventions will lead to sustainable water savings in the water basin until we can quantify the downstream impact of the interventions. Studies on the economic benefits and costs, and environmental aspects of alternative interventions are also lacking. This paper emphasizes the need to measure the productivity of water at farm, system, and basin levels, and to understand how the productivity at one level relates to the productivity at another. Without water balance studies to measure productivity at these different scales, it is not possible to identify the potential economic benefits of alternative interventions and the most appropriate strategies for increasing irrigation water p productivity in rice-based systems.