Impact of market oriented maize cash crop production on house-hold food security: Bangladesh perspective
This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Development Studies, 2016.
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10361-76492019-09-30T03:03:26Z Impact of market oriented maize cash crop production on house-hold food security: Bangladesh perspective Chowdhury, Jannat Adib Hossain, Dr. Md. Shahnawez BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, BRAC University Food security Household income Bangladesh Agriculture University This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Development Studies, 2016. Cataloged from PDF version of dissertation. Includes bibliographical references (page 29-30). Farming households from some parts of Bangladesh have increasingly been taking up maize production through efforts of a development project called Katalyst as there is huge demand in the national market for maize grains to be used for poultry feed. Maize primarily is used as a cash crop since Bangladeshi households are not habituated with maize consumption. The issue of Household Food Security at the level of farmers mainly depend on their own subsistence production. Therefore, it is very important to understand whether by switching into maize from subsistence crop production system, farmers are being worse-off in terms of their household level food security. Maize productions have been found to be positively interlinked with economic advance-ment of farmers, notwithstanding it depends on variety of factors. It is interesting to look at the findings accrued from an independent study commissioned by Katalyst which made conclusion on the economic impact of maize cultivation. Drawn from the large n farmers’ survey and verified with the in-depth small n farmer interviews, farmers have reported to make more income through maize production as opposed to their previous crop during the same season. Evidence shows that the economic gains of farmers through maize production have led to increased level of household food security primarily in relation to nutritional balance. For example, 80% of the survey respondents mentioned that their food habit improvised with the additional earnings from maize production. Farming households have reported a rise in affordability consume protein based foods such as fish or meat on an weekly basis with the additional income generated from maize production. Evidence shows that there lies a positive relationship between increased maize production and household food security. Farmers have positive perception about maize cultivation and they feel that by increasing maize production they have been able to reduce their dependency on rice crop. Jannat Adib Chowdhury M. Development Studies 2017-01-24T06:07:13Z 2017-01-24T06:07:13Z 2016 2016-08 Thesis ID 13162036 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/7649 en BRAC University dissertation are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 42 pages application/pdf BRAC University |
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This dissertation is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Development Studies, 2016. |
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