In this paper, input subsidies (fertiliser subsidies to be exact) have been related to the allocative efficiency of fertiliser input. Fertiliser was singled out not to ignore other inputs but to emphasise the fact that fertiliser accounts for at least 30 percent of the total farm expenditure in...

The paper deals with efficiency questions by estimating four production functions for four different regions in connection with Bangladesh agriculture. Hildreth and Houck's (1968) random coefficient method was found more suitable than OLS after conducting an appropriate test for this. In...