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  • J Earth Sci Clim Change 2014, Vol 5(6): 207
  • DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617.1000207

Policy Instruments for Reducing Nitrogen Fertilizer Based Emission: Under Policy Conflict of Self Sufficiency of Food versus Sustainable Management of Agriculture

Huda FA1* and Khan MA2
1Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
2Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Finance, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh
*Corresponding Author : Huda FA, Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh, Tel: +880-916740106, Email: fahmithus@hotmail.com

Received Date: Feb 25, 2014 / Accepted Date: Mar 22, 2014 / Published Date: Mar 25, 2014

Abstract

The paper discusses an alternative policy instrument to reduce nitrogen fertilizer based emission in agriculture compared to existing fertilizer subsidy for food self-sufficiency policy. The relative efficiency of fertilizer subsidy policy assessed in terms of budgeting resources and sustainable management of agriculture. It concern of nitrogen leaching and other related atmospheric emission control as climate change adaptation. An analytical framework of ex-post evaluation is developed to access the alternative incentive policies instead of fertilizer subsidy in Bangladesh, which may control emission. It observes the preliminary phase fertilizer subsidy policy efficiently contribute to increase food production. Using partial equilibrium analysis marginal productivity of fertilizer found zero or even negative. Although distributional implication of inputs subsidy is quite high but over dozes of cheap fertilization seriously emit the air as well as hampers water quality and soil. Finally, the implication of results suggests that for any kind of reduction or control in nitrogen fertilizer based emission from agriculture, this policy planner could explore the direct incentives programme instead of subsidized fertilizer any more. The existing subsidy policies contribute to use more than optimum level of fertilizer use especially nitrogen-based fertilizer.

Keywords: Policy instruments; Sustainable management; Nitrogen emission; Ex-post evaluation; Subsidy; Climate change

Citation: Huda FA, Khan MA (2014) Policy Instruments for Reducing Nitrogen Fertilizer Based Emission: Under Policy Conflict of Self Sufficiency of Food versus Sustainable Management of Agriculture. J Earth Sci Clim Change 5: 207. Doi: 10.4172/2157-7617.1000207

Copyright: © 2014 Huda FA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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