Publications
Factors influencing the farmers to enter into contract farming
01/01/2008
This study was conducted in Madukkarai and Kinathukadavu blocks of Coimbatore district for cotton crop and Attur and Gangavalli blocks in Salem district (Tamil Nadu, India) for coleus crop, with...
Website: Agila, R.; Manoharan, M.; Asokhan, M.
A study on the performance of contract farming in Coleus
01/01/2008
This study identifies the pros and cons of a contract programmes on Coleus crops under six major dimensions, i.e., farming dimension, extension dimension, market dimension, economic dimension, social dimension and...
Website: Agila, R.; Manoharan, M.; Asokhan, M.
Contract farming in the world's poultry industry
01/01/2008
Over the last 40 years the world has witnessed a remarkable increase in the consumption of poultry, pork and beef. Multinational meat processing companies have been able to respond to...
Website: Grain
Contract Farming and Poverty Reduction: the Case of Organic Rice Contract Farming in Thailand
01/01/2008
Contract farming is emerging as a promising tool to facilitate transformation from subsistence to commercial agriculture. It also facilitates adoption of high-value crops such as organically grown crops. Using data...
Website: Sununtar Setboonsarng, PingSun Leung, Junning Cai
Global Partnership in Poverty Reduction: Contract Farming and Regional Cooperation
01/01/2008
With globalization, market liberalization, and the rapid development of rural infrastructure, new market opportunities for high-value crops and livestock production are expanding in both developed and developing countries. This has...
Website: Sununtar Setboonsarng
Rice Contract Farming in Lao PDR: Moving from Subsistence to Commercial Agriculture
01/01/2008
Poverty is prevalent among small farms in transition economies such as the Lao PDR, where market failures prevail and subsistence production is the norm. Contract farming is emerging as a...
Website: Sununtar Setboonsarng, PingSun Leung, Adam Stefan
The production relations of contract farming in Honduras
01/01/2008
Contract farmers in central Honduras have been producers of Asian vegetables for American markets since 1989. Contract farming holds the potential to provide benefits to small farmers who would otherwise...
Website: Imbruce, V.
Organic Crops or Energy Crops? Options for Rural Development in Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic
01/01/2008
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...
Website: Anil Markandya, Sununtar Setboonsarng
Standards and agricultural trade in Asia
01/01/2008
Giovannucci, D. and Purcell, T., 2008. Standards and agricultural trade in Asia.In developing countries markets for agri-food products are changing at a pace that is unparalleled in modern history. Markets...
Website: Daniele Giovannucci and Timothy Purcell
Rice Contract Farming in Cambodia: Empowering Farmers to Move Beyond the Contract Toward Independence
04/01/2008
Cai, Junning, Luyna Ung, Sununtar Setboonsarng, and PingSun Leung. 2008. Rice Contract Farming in Cambodia: Empowering Farmers to Move Beyond the Contract Toward Independence. ADBI Discussion Paper 109. Tokyo: Asian Development Bank...
Website: Junning Cai, Luyna Ung, Sununtar Setboonsarng, PingSun Leung
Grower heterogeneity and the gains from contract farming; The case of Indian poultry
01/01/2009
The purpose of this paper is to offer an empirical analysis of contract farming for poultry in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India. Through a probit equation, the...
Website: Bharat Ramaswami, Pratap Singh Birthal, P.K. Joshi
An Empirical Study of Gains from Potato Contract Farming
01/01/2009
The study analyses data collected from 139 non-contract and 144 contract potato growers from four districts of West Bengal in the year 2008. It was found that the contract farmers...
Website: Arun Pandit, N K Pandey, Rajesh K Rana, Barsati Lal
Rural non-farm economy: a note on the impact of crop-diversification and land-conversion in India
01/01/2009
It is argued that crop diversification under the integrated institutional set-up of corporate contract farming (processing, packaging and retailing) may displace the petty manufacturing and services that have matured over...
Website: Saumya Chakrabarti; Anirban Kundu
Developing small production and marketing enterprises: mushroom contract farming in Bangladesh
01/01/2009
This article presents a case study of an activity implemented under the FAO component of the Local Partnerships for Urban Poverty Alleviation Project, funded by UNDP in Bangladesh. In Mymensingh...
Website: Zamil, M. F.; Cadilhon, J. J.
The Economics of Smallholder Organic Contract Farming in Tropical Africa
01/01/2009
The paper examines the revenue effects of certified organic contract farming for smallholders and of adoption of organic agricultural farming methods in a tropical African context. The comparison in both...
Website: Simon Bolwig, Peter Gibbon and Sam Jones
Revenue effects of participation in smallholder organic cocoa production in tropical Africa: a case study
01/01/2009
This paper examines the revenue effects of certified organic contract farming and of use of organic farming methods in a tropical African context. These are compared with 'organic by default'...
Website: Gibbon, P.; Lin YuMiao; Jones, S.
Much coveted investment or unwelcome land grabbing? Two views on the rubber boom in Laos
01/01/2009
Foreign direct investments in land can bring economic growth, but they may also have negative impacts on the income and food security of the local population. Using rubber production in...
Website: Wehrmann, B.
Farm-level impacts of vertical coordination of the food supply chain: evidence from contract farming of milk in India
01/01/2009
This paper quantifies the costs and benefits of contract farming of milk and identifies factors that influence farmers' participation in contract farming. Contract farming is more profitable than independent production....
Website: Birthal, P. S.; Jha, A. K.; Tiongco, M. M.; Narrod, C.
Impact of contract farming on income: linking small farmers, packers, and supermarkets in China
01/01/2009
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...
Website: Miyata, S.; Minot, N.; Hu DingHuan
The market-link imperative: refocusing public sector extension
01/01/2009
This paper reviews and compares two market-driven strategies: contract farming and producer marketing cooperatives. In passing, the paper critiques the single-minded contract farming emphasis adopted by the New Partnership for...
Website: Rivera, W. M.