AJAD Vol. 9 No. 2 features the following articles: (1) Estimation of Technical Efficiency for Rice Farms in Central Thailand Using Stochastic Frontier Approach; (1) Ex-ante Impact of Direct Seeding of Rice as an Alternative to Transplanting Rice in the Indo-Gangetic Plain; (1) Supply Response and Investment in Agriculture in Andhra Pradesh; (1) Governance, Institutional, and Pro-Poor Analysis of Cassava Contract Farming in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam; (1) Determinants of Household Income: A Quantile Regression Approach for Four Rice-Producing Areas in the Philippines; and (1) Community Dynamics and Ecological Sensibility for Sustainable Mangrove Governance in Sinjai Regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia