Production Efficiency and Business Performance in Bangladesh’s Agro-Processing Industry: The Role of Technology Adoption, Waste Reduction and Supply Chain Integration
Author (s)
Md. Baki Billah Ripon, Al-Imran Faysal, & Nadia Islam Noyshi
Abstract
Agro-processing companies in Bangladesh face inconsistent raw-material quality, process losses, limited technology adoption and fragmented supply chains. This conceptual framework paper develops a resource-conversion explanation linking technology adoption, waste reduction and supply chain integration to production efficiency and, consequently, business performance. Rather than conducting a pooled firm-level causal test, it examines the framework through a descriptive reanalysis of separately published secondary statistics. The Bangladesh Agro-Processors Association (BAPA) baseline covers 50 businesses, while the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies’ Skills for Employment Investment Project (BIDS-SEIP) survey reports 117 plants employing 41,546 people. In the BAPA baseline, adoption rates were 36% for TQM, 20% for JIT, 14% for HACCP, 4% for ISO and 2% for advanced 5S/Kaizen/Lean practices. The ratio of mean daily output to mean operating hours was 1.473 metric tons per hour, although these aggregate statistics cannot establish firm-level productivity. Large enterprises accounted for 38.5% of factories and 81.5% of employment in the BIDS-SEIP sample. These descriptive patterns indicate differences in capability adoption and enterprise scale; they do not test the proposed relationships. The six propositions identify potentially complementary mechanisms for future firm-level testing. A seventh proposition is anchored in the paper’s own descriptives. It proposes firm size as a moderator of capability conversion. This links the historical aggregates to the future test agenda. The paper’s practical contribution is a staged operations-management approach linking process measurement, loss reduction, supplier coordination and selective digital investment to business outcomes. It also identifies the measurement requirements and limitations relevant to future empirical validation.
Key words: Agro-processing, Production efficiency, Technology adoption, Waste reduction, Supply chain integration, Business performance, Bangladesh.
| Title: | Production Efficiency and Business Performance in Bangladesh’s Agro-Processing Industry: The Role of Technology Adoption, Waste Reduction and Supply Chain Integration |
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| Author: | Md. Baki Billah Ripon, Al-Imran Faysal, & Nadia Islam Noyshi |
| Journal Name: | Journal of Scientific Reports |
| Website: | http://ijsab.com/jsr |
| ISSN: | ISSN: 2708-7085 (Online), ISSN: 3079-9317 (Print) |
| Publisher | IJSAB International |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.58970/JSR.1252 |
| Media: | Online |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Acceptance Date: | 09/11/2026 |
| Date of Publication: | 12/11/2026 |
| PDF URL: | http://ijsab.com/wp-content/uploads/1252.pdf |
| Free download: | Available |
| Page: | 304-326 |
| First Page: | 304 |
| Last Page: | 326 |
| Paper Type: | Conceptual framework |
| Current Status: | Published |
Cite This Article:
Ripon, M. B. B., Faysal, A., & Noyshi, N. I. (2026). Production Efficiency and Business Performance in Bangladesh’s Agro-Processing Industry: The Role of Technology Adoption, Waste Reduction and Supply Chain Integration, Journal of Scientific Reports, 15(1), 304-326. https://doi.org/10.58970/JSR.1252
About Author (s)
Md. Baki Billah Ripon (Corresponding Author), Graduate, Department of Industrial & Production Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Rajshahi, Bangladesh. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3544-4015
Al-Imran Faysal, Graduate, Department of Industrial & Production Engineering, National Institute of Textile Engineering and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Nadia Islam Noyshi, Department of Agriculture, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58970/JSR.1252
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