Transforming agriculture in South Asia:   the role of value chains and contract farming 

 - London  Routledge  2021 
 - xxvi, 401 p. 
<br/><br/>Table of Contents<br/>Foreword<br/><br/>M. S. Swaminathan<br/><br/><br/>1. Introduction<br/><br/>Ashok K. Mishra, Anjani Kumar and Pramod K. Joshi<br/><br/><br/>Part I: Understanding the Agricultural Sector, Transformation, Value Chains and Contract Farming<br/><br/>2. Agriculture in South Asia: Trends and Prospects<br/><br/>Hiroyuki Takeshima<br/><br/>3. Agriculture on the Rise in Bangladesh: The Future Role of Value Chains<br/><br/>Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Akbar Hossain and Md. Israil Hossain<br/><br/>4. Structural Transformation and Sources of Growth in South Asian Agriculture<br/><br/>Pratap S. Birthal and Ghanshyam Pandey<br/><br/>5. The Agricultural Sector in Nepal: Scope of Improvement and Value Chains<br/><br/>Ganesh Thapa<br/><br/>6. Financing Agricultural Value Chains<br/><br/>Pratap S. Birthal, Pramod K. Joshi and Jaweriah Hazrana<br/><br/>7. Role of Transaction Costs in Modern Food Retail Chains: Empirical Evidence from India<br/><br/>Kedar Vishnu and Alwin Dsouza<br/><br/><br/>Part II: Case Studies in Contract Farming<br/><br/>8. Contract Farming in Lentils and Rice Seed Production: Case Studies from Nepal<br/><br/>Ashok K. Mishra, Anjani Kumar and Stefan Hirsch<br/><br/>9. Formal Versus Informal Milk Value Chains in Bangladesh: Trade-Offs Between Price and Food Safety<br/><br/>Anjani Kumar, Vinay K Sonkar and Sunil Saroj<br/><br/>10. Durum Wheat Value Chain in Pakistan: Scanning Current Picture and Exploring Future Potential<br/><br/>Akhter Ali and Tariq Saleem<br/><br/>11. Contract Farming and Farm Performance: Evidence from Brinjal Cultivation in Bangladesh<br/><br/>Anjani Kumar, Gaurav Tripathi, Devesh Roy, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam<br/><br/>12. Value Chains in Aquaculture and Fisheries in Bangladesh<br/><br/>Madan M. Dey and Prasanna Surathkal<br/><br/>13. Mango Value Chains in India<br/><br/>Madhuri Saripalle and Elumalai Kannan<br/><br/>14. Moving towards Sustainability: An Evaluation of Indian Coffee in the Global Food Value Chain<br/><br/>Parmod Kumar, A.V. Manjunatha and C.M. Devika<br/><br/><br/>Part III: Contract Farming, Storage and Technical Efficiency<br/><br/>15. Indian Agriculture and Agro-Processing in the Global Value Chains<br/><br/>Seema Bathla and Abhishek Jha<br/><br/>16. Harvesting the Booming Potential: The Case of Maize Value Chain in Pakistan<br/><br/>Akhter Ali and Muhammad Umer Afzal<br/><br/><br/>17. Storage and Structural Factors Determining the Commercialization of Indian Agriculture<br/><br/>A. Ganesh-Kumar and Varun Kumar Das<br/><br/>18. Agri-Commodity Futures and Value Chains<br/><br/>Tirtha Chatterjee, Raghav Raghunathan and Ashok Gulati<br/><br/>19. Contract Farming and Its Impact on Fertilizer Usage: Evidence from India<br/><br/>Ashok K. Mishra, Anjani Kumar and Alwin Dsouza<br/><br/>20. Assessing and Explaining the Technical Efficiency of Contract and Non-Contract Farms in India<br/><br/>A.V. Manjunatha, Parmod Kumar and Suman Kumar Sourav<br/><br/>21. Who Quits and Who Sustains Participation in Supermarket Supply Chain? An Insight from Aditya Birla More Supply Chain<br/><br/>D. Suganthi, S. Mahendra Dev and Vijay Laxmi Pandey 
<br/><br/> 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780367696337 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>South Asia<br/>Agriculture--Economic aspects<br/>Agriculture and state
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.10954  / MIS