Resource productivity estimates on the lowland rice farms in Baybay, Leyte [Philippines]
1984
Armenia, P.T.
Comparisons of the resource input utilization, yield and farm income per hectare indicate that input utilization on the average differ significantly only between farms with an area of less than or equal to 0.50 hectare and on farms greater than 0.50 hectare. The higher input intensity on small farms relative to larger farm classification had a significant impact on yield and gross farm income but not on net farm income in both seasons. Yield, gross and net farm income were consistently higher on irrigated farms and statistically different compared with rainfed farms in both seasons. Resource-use inefficiencies exhibited the current input allocation particularly nitrogen applied, land cultivated and human labor. Farm income on the lowland rice farms can still be increased by the adjustment of the level of input used. Addition of nitrogen applied and reduction of the current labor employed appear to be one of the adjustment possibilities. The elasticity of substitution of operating capital for human labor was greater than unity in the dry season and was much higher in the wet season, indicating a tendency of the production technology being employed by farm operators to be capital intensive
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