Impact of agriculture extension services on technical efficiency of rural paddy farmers in southwest Bangladesh

Agricultural Extension Services (AES) aim to improve farming knowledge that helps in increasing crop production and the technical efficiency of paddy farmers Bangladesh. The purposes this study are measure impact an AES, namely, Blue Gold programme, on level Boro southwest rural A total 122 were interviewed, employing a random sampling method. To analyse farmers, Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier model was employed. findings show mean levels participants non-participants 95% 82%, producing 162.74 136.48 maunds per hectare, respectively. indispensable for devising strategies environment-friendly agricultural activities economic development