The study was conducted during 2008-2009 to estimate the farm-size-specific technical efficiency of rice growers. The … production of rice for marginal farms indicating that production could be increased by increasing efficiency with the existing …

selection of rice cultivars by conducting a life cycle assessment of GHG emissions and estimating the carbon sequestered for … fourteen commonly sown rice cultivars across Arkansas. Market-oriented carbon-offset credits based on additionality likely … retailers strive to lower their overall carbon footprints. Given their higher yield per unit of GHG emission, hybrid rice …

This study uses the concept of meta-frontier function to examine the technical efficiency and varietal-gap of rice … in this study were classified into three groups according to the variety of rice they planted. The three main varieties … of rice planted are local (Ofada), improved (Mai-Nasara) and New Rice for African (NERICA). The technical efficiency …

Nitrogen is a crucial input for the efficient production of rice and is generally applied in two split treatments …, before flooding the rice paddocks at sowing time and within a week after the beginning of the panicle initiation stage. There … of this study was to first value the information to growers provided by a nitrogen test for soils of rice paddocks and …