Changing dietary preferences and population growth in South Asia have resulted in increasing demand for wheat and maize, along side high and sustained demand for rice. In the highly productive northwestern Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, farmers utilize groundwater irrigation to assure that at least two of these crops are sequenced on the same field within the same year. Such double croppin...

Legumes are considered to be an important component of subsistence cropping systems because of their ability to form nodules in symbiotic process with Rhizobium bacteria, which convert atmospheric nitrogen (N2) into assimilable form of ammonia, to add substantial amount of organic matter to the soil and to grow better than many other crops with low inputs under harsh climatic and edaphic condit...

The main objective of the study was to identify and analyze the inefficiency and yield gaps of wheat production in Bangladesh. The study employed farm level cross sectional data from three major wheat growing areas of Bangladesh. Yield of wheat was found to vary across locations and farm categories. The average technical inefficiency of wheat production in Bangladesh is 16. This indicates a goo...