Transforming Agriculture in South Asia: The Role of Value Chains and Contract Farming

ISBN-13: 9780367696337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 402 str.

Mishra, Ashok K.

Opis

This book explores the policy issues around contract farming, its transformative potential, and addresses the lack of empirical research on this topic by focusing on South Asia: principally India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Part I: Understanding the Agricultural Sector, Transformation, Value Chains and Contract Farming 2. Agriculture in South Asia: Trends and Prospects  3. Agriculture on the Rise in Bangladesh: The Future Role of Value Chains  4. Structural Transformation and Sources of Growth in South Asian Agriculture  5. The Agricultural Sector in Nepal: Scope of Improvement and Value Chains  6. Financing Agricultural Value Chains  7. Role of Transaction Costs in Modern Food Retail Chains: Empirical Evidence from India  Part II: Case Studies in Contract Farming 8. Contract Farming in Lentils and Rice Seed Production: Case Studies from Nepal  9. Formal Versus Informal Milk Value Chains in Bangladesh: Trade-Offs Between Price and Food Safety  10. Durum Wheat Value Chain in Pakistan: Scanning Current Picture and Exploring Future Potential  11. Contract Farming and Farm Performance: Evidence from Brinjal Cultivation in Bangladesh  12. Value Chains in Aquaculture and Fisheries in Bangladesh  13. Mango Value Chains in India   14. Moving towards Sustainability: An Evaluation of Indian Coffee in the Global Food Value Chain Part III: Contract Farming, Storage and Technical Efficiency 15. Indian Agriculture and Agro-Processing in the Global Value Chains  16. Harvesting the Booming Potential: The Case of Maize Value Chain in Pakistan  17. Storage and Structural Factors Determining the Commercialization of Indian Agriculture  18. Agri-Commodity Futures and Value Chains  19. Contract Farming and Its Impact on Fertilizer Usage: Evidence from India  20. Assessing and Explaining the Technical Efficiency of Contract and Non-Contract Farms in India  21. Who Quits and Who Sustains Participation in Supermarket Supply Chain? An Insight from Aditya Birla More Supply Chain