Smart Rice Farming, Managerial Model and Empirical Analysis

This chapter reviewed the connotations and research approaches of smart agriculture and agricultural production efficiency, summarized the composition of a smart rice production model, “Noshonnavi1000.” The adoption of this smart rice farming model was in accordance with the GAP objectives, and it was used to collect data from large-scale rice farms and support empirical analyses of production efficiency determinants through models reflecting the main streams of production efficiency analysis: path analysis explored the determinants from the perspective of marginal effect, while data envelopment analysis decomposed production efficiency into technical and scale efficiency. This chapter summarized the constitution of the research consortium of the series projects and organization of the following chapters, thus provided the general scenario of this book.