Contract farming is a business development concept that brings the CP Group back to the basics of agricultural business. CP has always realized that farmers are our lifetime partners so we do business for their development. CP projects have the objective of ensuring farmers get a sustainable income and better [...]
Organization: CP Group, Thailand
The international development community has made a significant strategic policy shift towards the use of high value-added market-driven development initiatives, with contract farming as a mechanism to assist small impoverished farmers to link themselves with international markets. Although contract farming has been in existence for many years as a means [...]
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
The relationship between farmers and the food industry ranges from carrying out spot market transactions to complete integration, characterized as vertical integration. In this study, the relationship between farmers and the food industry in Turkey has been investigated focusing on contract farming. The Turkish food industry is a promising sector, [...]
Organization: Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Uludag University, Turkey
Contents of the Book
1. A Global Overview of Contract Farming by Erkan Rehber
2. Hog Production Contracts: The Grower-Integrator Relationship
3. Vertical Integration and Cooperation in the Russian Agro-Food Sector: Recent Developments
4. More Vertical Coordination in Pork Production Supply Chains?: [...]
Organization: Icfai Business School Research Centre, Chennai
Contract farming is a joint venture between a farmer and a firm for producing and marketing farm products. The contracting firm vertically integrates the food chain to capture the benefits of two or more stages in the production and marketing process of agricultural products. Contract farming facilitates farmers in getting [...]
Organization: Icfai Business School Research Center, Chennai
Based on a survey of rice contract farming for export in Cambodia, this paper uses simple mean comparison, propensity score matching comparison, and switching regression comparison to assess the impact of contract farming on farmers' performance. Farmers with larger family sizes, younger and more educated household heads, less asset value, [...]
Organization: Asian Development Bank Institute
In developing countries markets for agri-food products are changing at a pace that is unparalleled in modern history. Markets are increasingly open and increasingly homogenized toward international tastes and requirements for levels of quality, packaging, safety, and even process attributes such as socially or environmentally friendly methods. New distribution channels, [...]
Organization: Asian Development Bank Institute
This paper examines the prospects for organic agriculture (OA) and the production of biofuels as strategies for rural development in Cambodia and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Both agricultural activities are growing worldwide, although there are some questions as to how effective they are, environmentally and socially. These [...]
Organization: Asian Development Bank Institute
Indian agriculture is dominated by smallholders - of the total 101 million farm households 86 percent have land holdings of less than or equal to 2 ha, and their average size of land holding is 0.53 ha (Government of India (GoI), 2006a). How long can these households survive cultivating such [...]
Organization: National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi, India
Despite rapid economic growth over the past 15 years, rice production is still one of the most important economic activities in Lao PDR. The majority of production both in area planted and output is in rain-fed paddy by farm households producing rice for own-consumption and selling surpluses for cash. [...]
Organization: Helvetas
