Publications
A Study on Contract Farming of Mentha in Chhattisgarh
01/01/2009
The paper analyses the working of the contract farming system for Mentha (mentha arvensis)adopted by Chhattisgarh Agricon Pvt. Ltd., to tap new sources of supply for menthol oil while...
Website: A. K. Gauraha, K. N. S. Banafar
An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Marketing Contract Structures for Corn and Soybeans
01/01/2010
Contracts serve as coordination mechanisms which allocate value, risk, and decision rights across buyers and sellers. The use of marketing contracts in agriculture, specifically for crop production, has been increasing...
Website: Nicholas D. Paulson, Ani L. Katchova, Sergio H. Lence
An economics analysis of contract farming of organically produced, natural colour cotton in Karnataka
01/01/2010
The present study, conducted in 2005-06, was based on a data from a purposive sample of 80 farmers contracted for organically cultivating naturally coloured cotton and supervised seed multiplication from...
Website: Dodamani, M. T.; Kunnal, L. B.
De la passivité à la collaboration : l’évolution des relations entre cacaoculteurs et industriel en Équateur
01/01/2010
Les relations entre agriculteurs et industriels sont toujours asymétriques, et sont source de difficultés pour développer des activités conjointes. Un industriel chocolatier français, fortement motivé par le potentiel aromatique d'un...
Website: Dulcire, M.
Extension services in contract farming: an explorative study of potential parameters
27/01/2012
Contract farming as a form of organising agricultural production is fast gaining acceptance and popularity among agricultural policy planners as a viable and efficient route to increase agricultural production. In...
Website: Thomas, L.; Nirmala, B.
An empirical study of the structural change of demand for rice and the contract production in Hokkaido's rice farming. [Japanese]
27/01/2012
As economic development proceeds, the contents and style of people's meal has changed. Accordingly, household demand for rice has been declining and thus the percentage of rice in gross agricultural...
Website: Kamata, Y.
Contract farming and the remaking of agrarian landscapes: insights from South India's chilli belt.
27/01/2012
This analysis of a backward integration traceability scheme for red chillies developed by a multinational food company in India emphasizes spatial integration and differentiation within contract farming. The scheme is...
Website: Pritchard, B.; Connell, J.
Economic analysis of production and marketing of cotton under contract and non-contract farming: a case study in Tamil Nadu
27/01/2012
Agriculture is continued to be the prime mover of the Tamil Nadu State economy supporting 60 percent of the population and contributing 13 percent of state economy in 2005-06. Besides...
Website: Senthilnathan, S.; Govindaraj, S.; Chandrasekaran, M.
Supply chain differentiation, contract agriculture, and farmers' marketing preferences: the case of sweet pepper in Thailand
27/01/2012
There is an emerging body of literature analyzing how smallholder farmers in developing countries can be linked to modern supply chains. However, most of the available studies concentrate on farm...
Website: Schipmann, C.; Qaim, M.
Production aspects of contract farming in hybrid bitter gourd seed production
27/01/2012
The study on a case of contract hybrid bitter gourd seed production was conducted in Ranebennur taluk of Haveri district, which is considered to be hub of vegetable seed production...
Website: Chidanand Patil; Shashidhara, B. M.; Basavaraj Banakar; Yeledhalli, R. A.; Kuldeep Choudhary
Contract farming as frictional equilibrium: A theoretical viewpoint with empirical evidence from southern India
24/02/2012
This study makes a case for theorizing contract farming as institutions that operate over a domain, rather than as mere technical arrangements for risk sharing between two economic actors. It...
Website: Sudha Narayanan
Notional Contracts: The Moral Economy of Contract Farming Arrangements in India
24/02/2012
This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India, bringing together data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses and 484 contract...
Website: Sudha Narayanan
Learning about a New Technology: Pineapple in Ghana
24/02/2012
This paper investigates the role of social learning in the diffusion of a new agricultural technology in Ghana. We use unique data on farmers’ communication patterns to define each individual’s information...
Website: Timothy G. Conley and Christopher R. Udry
As You Sow, So Shall You Reap: The Welfare Impacts of Contract Farming
24/02/2012
What is the impact of participation in agricultural value chains on the welfare of smallholders? Contract farming, wherein a processing firm delegates its production of agricultural commodities to growers, is...
Website: M.F. Bellemare
Contract Farming in Developing Countries - A Review
21/03/2012
This review tries, through the analysis of academic, institutional and technical literature and through the study of some documented contract farming cases, to give some answers to the most frequently...
Website: Martin Prowse
Regulation and Dispute Settlement in Contract Farming in India
10/04/2012
Contract farming is generally defined under an agreement between farmers and a Sponsor (e.g. processor, exporter, and marketing firm) for the production and supply of agricultural products under a Forward...
Website: R.C.A. Jain
An Overview of Contract Farming: Legal Issues and Challenges
21/05/2012
Contract farming has recently risen to prominence in the development literature because of the potential benefits that may result from sound contractual practices in agricultural production. This paper will first highlight...
Website: Caterina Pultrone
Pacta Sunt Servanda Versus the Social Role of Contracts: the case of Brazilian agriculture contracts
22/05/2012
This study explores the instability created by contradictory court decisions related with contract breaches. Forward marketing contracts represent an important source of resources to finance Brazilian agriculture, however a large number...
Website: Christiane Leles Rezende e Decio Zylbersztajn
Contractual Relationships and Inter-firm Co-operation in the Agri-food Sector
23/05/2012
In recent years, the most meaningful expression of the industrialization process of the agricultural sector has been represented by the growing development of contract farming: contracts and vertical integration now...
Website: Antonio Iannarelli