Impact Of Contract Farming On Income Linking Small Farmers Packers And Supermarkets In China

Author : Sachiko Miyata, Nicholas Minot, and Dinghuan Hu
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Impact of Contract Farming on Income: Linking small farmers, Packers, and Supermarkets in China by Sachiko Miyata, Nicholas Minot, and Dinghuan Hu Pdf

This study compares contract and non-contract growers of apples and green onions in Shandong Province, China in order to explore the constraints on participation and the impact of contract farming on income. We find little evidence that firms prefer to work with larger farms, though all farms in the area are quite small. Using a Heckman selection-correction model, we find that contract farming raises income even after controlling for observable and unobservable household characteristics. These results suggest that contract farming can help raise small-farm income, though questions remain regarding the number of farmers that can be brought into such schemes.

Author : Kumar, Anjani,Roy, Devesh,Trapathi, Gaurav,Joshi, Pramod Kumar,Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Can contract farming increase farmers’ income and enhance adoption of food safety practices? by Kumar, Anjani,Roy, Devesh,Trapathi, Gaurav,Joshi, Pramod Kumar,Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad Pdf

Growing inequality has become an important concern in many countries. One of the ways that inequality is perpetuated is through differential market access across regions. This research deals with one of the primary determinants of regional inequality manifested in terms of market access. Nepal is one country where hierarchical geography leads to regional inequality. Differential market access can cause as well as accentuate inequality among farmers. Coordination arrangements such as contract farming can improve outcomes for the farmers and integrators on the one hand, but on the other hand it can accentuate inequality if only some regions benefit from it. With this background, in this paper we study the case of contract farming for exports with farmers in remote hilly areas of Nepal. The prospect for contract farming in such areas with accessibility issues owing to underdeveloped markets and lack of amenities is ambiguous. On the one hand, contractors in these areas find it difficult to build links, particularly when final consumers have quality and safety requirements. On the other hand, remoteness can make the contracts more sustainable if the agroecology offers product-specific quality advantages and, more important, if there is a lack of side-selling opportunities. At the same time, concerns remain about buyers’ monopsonistic powers when remotely located small farmers do not have outside options. This study hence quantifies the benefits of contract farming on remotely located farmers’ income and compliance with food safety measures. Results show that contract farming is significantly more profitable (offering a 58 percent greater net income) than independent production, the main pathway being higher price realization, along with training on practices and provision of quality seeds.

Author : Kumar, Anjani,Roy, Devesh,Tripathi, Gaurav,Joshi, Pramod Kumar,Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Contracting by small farmers in commodities with export potential by Kumar, Anjani,Roy, Devesh,Tripathi, Gaurav,Joshi, Pramod Kumar,Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad Pdf

This study is undertaken to quantify the benefits of contract farming (CF) on farmers’ income in a case where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal. CF is emerging as an important form of vertical coordination in the agrifood supply chain. The prospect for CF in a country like Nepal with accessibility issues, underdeveloped markets, and a lack of amenities remains ambiguous. Contractors find it difficult to build links in these cases, particularly when final consumers have quality and safety requirements. However, a lack of other market opportunities makes the contracts more sustainable. The latter happens if there are product-specific quality advantages because of agroecology and, more important, lack of side-selling opportunities. Concerns remain about monoposonistic powers of the buyers when small farmers do not have outside options. Results of this study show that CF is significantly more profitable (81 percent greater net income) than independent production, the main pathway being higher yield and price realization. The positive impact of CF on farmers’ profits can help Nepal in harnessing the growing demand for pulses, especially in neighboring international markets, like India.

Author : Ashok K. Mishra,Anjani Kumar,Pramod K. Joshi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000336276

Get Book

Transforming Agriculture in South Asia by Ashok K. Mishra,Anjani Kumar,Pramod K. Joshi Pdf

Debates about public expenditure in the agricultural sector have reopened in many developing and emerging economies because of high budget deficits and changes in public opinion. As a result, agricultural policy in many of these countries is beginning to take a more market-oriented approach to agrarian problems, most notably through the introduction of contract farming. This book explores the policy issues around contract farming and its transformative potential and addresses the lack of empirical research on this topic by focusing on South Asia: principally India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The book first addresses the effects of contract farming (vertical coordination) on productivity, food security indicators (yield, consumption expenditures, prices), employment and input usage. Then it draws lessons from the South Asian case studies on the impact of institutional changes, like contract farming, on income and food security of smallholder households. The core of the book includes case study chapters on several commodities that are produced under contract farming, including vegetables and fisheries in Bangladesh, low-value crops in Nepal and coffee in India. Other chapters also explore contracts, storage, input usage and technical efficiency in these cases. This book serves as an essential guide to academics, researchers, students, legislative liaisons and think tank groups interested in agrarian issues, agricultural economics and agricultural policy in emerging economies and particularly in South Asia.

Author : Kydd, Jonathon
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Ex-post evaluation study of IFPRI’s research on high-value agriculture, 1994–2010 by Kydd, Jonathon Pdf

This paper reports on an ex-post assessment of IFPRI’s research on High-Value Agriculture (HVA) over 1994–2010. HVA is defined to include perishable agricultural commodities produced for the market that yield high returns to land, labor, or both. IFPRI’s research on HVA has been housed mainly in GRP27 (Participation in high value agricultural markets). Questions for the study included whether IFPRI had the right research strategy for this topic; was focused on the right issues; was a leader in the field; used the most relevant approaches and methods; and was successful in sensitizing/influ-encing the policies of governments, agribusiness, academia, civil society, and the international donor community. Finally, what has been the impact of the HVA policies that IFPRI influenced?

Author : Seema Bathla,Elumalai Kannan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811594687

Get Book

Agro and Food Processing Industry in India by Seema Bathla,Elumalai Kannan Pdf

This book provides different facets of India's agro and food processing industry in both organised and unorganised segments. It brings forth the topical issues having potential to accelerate the pace of growth in its employment, investment and productivity and strive for improving the global competitiveness. Using advanced quantitative techniques, it brings new evidences on inter-sectoral (agriculture-industry-services) employment and production linkages, contractual arrangements through Farmer Producer Companies, and subcontracting in the processed food sector. It also throws light on India's comparative advantage in export of primary and processed food products. With rising per capita income, urbanisation, and changing food habits of people, India is increasingly striving to improve productivity and competitiveness in agriculture and manufacturing. A concerted policy focus to accelerate private investment in food processing, largely viewed as a sunrise industry, is expected to contribute to large scale job creation and external trade not only in the manufacturing but also in the agricultural sector. Keeping this in mind, considerable insights are featured in the book at the industry and firm levels due to a significant bearing of technological, tariffs and non-tariff barriers and labour regulations on their trade intensity, employment and efficiency. Containing perspectives from the top agriculture and industry economists in the country, the book will be very useful to researchers, academicians, trade analysts and policy makers.

Author : Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful,Roy, Devesh,Kumar, Anjani,Tripathi, Gaurav,Joshi, Pramod Kumar
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Dairy contract farming in Bangladesh: Implications for welfare and food safety by Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful,Roy, Devesh,Kumar, Anjani,Tripathi, Gaurav,Joshi, Pramod Kumar Pdf

Contract farming is emerging as an important institutional innovation in the high value food chain in developing countries including Bangladesh, and its socioeconomic implications are topic of interest in policy debates. This study is an empirical assessment to explore the determinants of participation and the impact of contract farming on welfare and adoption of food safety practice in Bangladesh. Our analysis indicates that contract farmers are more likely to have better access to agricultural extension services, attended proportionately more community meetings, households members are member of organizations, access more credit, are located farther from output market, and have larger herd sizes. We also find that network variables such as time spent with cooperatives and other institutions and price fluctuation and average prices received experience before participation in contract are strongly associated with participation in contract farming. We find that contract farming has a robust positive impact on welfare measured by expenditure, farm profit and farm productivity, and food safety practice adoption even after innovatively controlling for observed and unobserved heterogeneity among dairy farmers. More specifically results indicate that a one unit increase in the likelihood of participating in contract farming is associated with a 42, 35,34 and 9 percent increase in household expenditure, gross margin and net margin per cow, and food safety practice adoption rate respectively, among other positive impacts.

Author : Gyanendra Mani,P.K. Joshi,M.V. Ashok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811059575

Get Book

Financing Agriculture Value Chains in India by Gyanendra Mani,P.K. Joshi,M.V. Ashok Pdf

This book examines the successful private, public and civil society models of agriculture value chains in India and addresses relevant challenges and opportunities to improve their efficiency and inclusiveness. It promotes the value-chain approach as a tool to improve access to finance for small holder farmers and discusses the possible structure of and regulatory framework for the ‘National Common Agricultural Market’— a term that featured in the Indian Finance Minister’s 2014–15 budget speech, and which is aimed towards standardizing and improving transparency in agricultural trade practices across states under a single licensing system. The book deliberates on the potential of developing innovative financial instruments into the value chain framework by supporting tripartite agreements between producers, lead firms and financial institutions. Its fourteen chapters are divided into three parts—Agriculture Value Chain Financing: Theoretical Framework, Agriculture Value Chain Financing in Cases of Select Commodities; and Institutional Framework for Agriculture Value Chain Financing. Since the concept of value chain financing is being considered as a future policy agenda, the book is of great interest to corporations dealing with agricultural inputs and outputs; commercial, regional, rural and cooperative banks; policy makers; academicians and NGOs.

Author : Breisinger, Clemens,Keenan, Michael,Mbuthia, Juneweenex,Njuki, Jemimah
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Food systems transformation in Kenya: Lessons from the past and policy options for the future Loading... Files Full Book (7.78 MB, pdf) Chapters List (73 KB, pdf) Authors Breisinger, Clemens Keenan, Michael Mbuthia, Juneweenex Njuki, Jemimah Date Issued 2023-12-20 Language en Type Book Review Status Peer Review Access Rights Open Access Open Access Usage Rights CC-BY-4.0 Metadata Sha by Breisinger, Clemens,Keenan, Michael,Mbuthia, Juneweenex,Njuki, Jemimah Pdf

The new Kenyan government faces a complex domestic and global environment, and it is widely expected to address key food and agricultural challenges with a new set of policies and programs. This policy brief presents key recommendations from a forthcoming book, Food Systems Transformation in Kenya: Lessons from the Past and Policy Options for the Future, which provides research-based “food for thought and action” to support the Kenyan government’s efforts to improve food security.

Author : Vladik Kreinovich
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031436017

Get Book

Machine Learning for Econometrics and Related Topics by Vladik Kreinovich Pdf

Author : Phiri, M.A.R.,Mangisoni, J.H.,Edriss, Abdi Khalil,Shaba, Abel Kondwani
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Tobacco contractual arrangements in Malawi and their impact on smallholder farmers: Evidence from Burley Tobacco Contracts by Phiri, M.A.R.,Mangisoni, J.H.,Edriss, Abdi Khalil,Shaba, Abel Kondwani Pdf

Author : Daniel Callo-Concha,Hannah Jaenicke,Christine B. Schmitt,Manfred Denich
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039286683

Get Book

Advances in Food and Non-Food Biomass Production, Processing and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa by Daniel Callo-Concha,Hannah Jaenicke,Christine B. Schmitt,Manfred Denich Pdf

The bioeconomy concept aims to add sustainability to the production, transformation, and trade of biological goods. Though implemented around the world, the development of national bioeconomies is uneven, especially in the global South, where major challenges exist in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this context, the international BiomassWeb project aimed to underpin the bioeconomy concept by applying the value web approach, which seeks to uncover complex interlinked value webs instead of linear value chains. The project also aimed to develop intervention options to strengthen and optimize the synergies and trade-offs among different value chains. The Special Issue “Advances in Food and Non-Food Biomass Production, Processing and Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Toward a Basis for a Regional Bioeconomy" compiles 23 articles produced in this framework. The articles are grouped in four sections: the value web approach; the production side; processing, transformation and trade; and global views.

Author : Mishra, Ashok K.,Kumar, Anjani,Joshi, Pramod Kumar,D’Souza, Alwin,Tripathi, Gaurav
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Contract farming, productivity and fertilizer usage: Empirical evidence from specialty crop production by Mishra, Ashok K.,Kumar, Anjani,Joshi, Pramod Kumar,D’Souza, Alwin,Tripathi, Gaurav Pdf

This study investigates the impact of contract farming (CF) in baby corn production on yield, irrigation costs, fertilizer costs and usage of chemical fertilizer. We find that adoption of CF by baby corn smallholders, after controlling for characteristics of both control and treatment groups, leads to higher yields and lower spending on fertilizers and irrigation. Additionally, CF in baby corn farming leads to a reduction in the use of chemical fertilizers (Urea and DAP). Thus, CF intervention benefits the livelihood of smallholders, reduces environmental degradation and reduces stress on groundwater without compromising yield.

Author : Peter B. R. Hazell,Atiqur Rahman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191003561

Get Book

New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture by Peter B. R. Hazell,Atiqur Rahman Pdf

The majority of the poor and hungry people in the world live on small farms and struggle to subsist on too little land with low input - low yield technologies. At the same time, many other smallholders are successfully intensifying and succeeding as farm businesses, often in combination with diversification into off-farm sources of income. This book examines the growing divergence between subsistence and business oriented small farms, and discusses how this divergence has been impacted by population growth, trends in farm size distribution, urbanization, off-farm income diversification, and the globalization of agricultural value chains. It finds that policy makers need to differentiate more sharply between different types of small farms than they did in the past, both in terms of their potential contributions towards achieving national economic growth, poverty alleviation, and food security goals, and the types of assistance they need. The book distinguishes between smallholders that are business oriented, subsistence oriented, and at various stages of transition to the non-farm economy, and discusses strategies appropriate for assisting each type. The book draws on a wealth of recent experience at IFAD and elsewhere to help identify best practice approaches.

Author : United Nations ESCAP
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210475716

Get Book

Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal 2018, Issue No. 1 by United Nations ESCAP Pdf

The Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal (APSDJ) aims to stimulate debate and enrich research in the formulation of policy in the Asia-Pacific region towards the fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Published twice a year, the APSDJ is a rebranded journal of the United Nations Economic and Social Commision for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) that builds on the success of two earlier journals - the Asia-Pacific Development Journal (APDJ), which has been published since 1994, and the Asia-Pacific Population Journal (APPJ), since 1986. These journals are being merged in recognition of the interconnected and multidisciplinary nature of sustainable development.