Recent studies suggest extensive use of environmental resources in agrofarming degrades ecosystem significantly. In this backdrop, this study aims at assessing ecoefficiency of paddy farming. Because ecoefficiency links up between economic performances and environmental resources supporting the provision of goods and services for the society, this study further investigates the effectiveness of attending Farmers' Field School (FFS), an agroenvironmental program, in conserving environmental resources through improving farm-level ecoefficiency.,In a dataset of 200 randomly selected paddy farmers from three districts of the southwestern Bangladesh, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is applied to compute both radial and pressure-specific (nutrient balance, energy balance, irrigation and pesticide lethal risk) ecoefficiency scores. Furthermore, propensity score matching (PSM) technique is applied to examine the impact of FFS program on farm-level ecoefficiency.,The DEA results suggest that paddy farmers are highly eco-inefficient. The computed radial eco-efficiency score is 0.40 implying farmers could reduce around 60% of environmental pressure equiproportionally even by maintaining the same level of value addition. In addition, the PSM results suggest farmers' participation in FFS program led to around 22.5% higher radial ecoefficiency and 7–25% higher environmental pressure-specific eco-efficiencies. Furthermore, simulation exercises reveal that FFS participation in interaction with farm size would lead to around 32–40% reduction of all environmental pressures.,Promoting FFS programs among paddy farmers could be an effective policy option to improve eco-efficiency through environment-friendly farming paradigm.,This study is probably the maiden effort that has examined the impact of attending the FFS program on ecoefficiency improvement in Bangladesh. This study contributes to both the concern literature by adding useful information and the policymakers by providing new insights about the reduction of environmental resource usage with maintaining the same value addition from agrofarming.

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农民的野外教育对生态效率有何影响？来自孟加拉国稻农的经验证据

最近的研究表明，在农业中广泛使用环境资源会严重破坏生态系统。在这种背景下，本研究旨在评估水稻种植的生态效率。由于生态效率是经济绩效与环境资源之间的联系，从而为社会提供了商品和服务，因此本研究进一步调查了参加农业环境计划农民田间学校（FFS）在通过改善农场级别来保护环境资源方面的有效性。在孟加拉国西南部三个地区的200名随机选择的稻农中，使用数据包络分析（DEA）来计算径向和压力比（养分平衡，能量平衡，灌溉和杀虫剂致死风险）的生态效率分数。此外，倾向评分匹配（PSM）技术用于检验FFS计划对农场一级生态效率的影响。DEA结果表明，稻农的生态效率极低。计算得出的径向生态效率得分为0.40，这意味着即使保持相同的附加值水平，农民也可以等比例减少约60％的环境压力。此外，PSM结果表明，农民参与FFS计划导致径向生态效率提高了约22.5％，特定环境压力的生态效率提高了约7-25％。此外，模拟实验表明，FFS参与与农场规模的互动将导致所有环境压力降低约32–40％。在水稻种植者中推广FFS计划可能是通过环境友好型农业范例提高生态效率的有效政策选择。这项研究可能是一项处女作，它研究了参加FFS计划对孟加拉国提高生态效率的影响。这项研究通过添加有用的信息，为关注文献做出了贡献，并通过提供有关减少环境资源使用的新见解并保持与农业耕作相同的附加价值，为决策者做出了贡献。