Nepal's population continues to grow, but the agricultural sector's performance remains
almost stagnant. This has led to a decline in the per capita availability of food. Increasing …

Demand for organic basmati rice (OBR), both at home and abroad, coupled with policy
reforms have given rise to contract farming (CF) production in India. OBR production …

The concept of agriculture supply chain management is relatively a recent idea in
agribusiness management literature, though supply chain as such is few decades old …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to quantify the benefits of contract farming (CF) on
farmers' income and adoption of food safety measures (FSMs) at the farm level. The paper …

This study examines the impact of the choice of contract farming (CF) conditions on the
productivity and profitability of ginger growers. Using farm-level data from Nepal and the …

The paper identifies determinants of farmers' participation in contract farming of paddy seed
and its impact on farm income using survey data from 502 farmers engaged in paddy seed …

Environmental precarity, the growing result of both socioeconomic extraction and slow
environmental degradation is making rural life and the continuation of extractive forms of …

This paper discusses the performance of contract farming in Mahbubnagar and Karimnagar
districts of Andhra Pradesh. It compares contract farming in gherkin and rice seed with non …

Farming based on a contract between farmers and agro-processing and/or marketing firms
is catching on in Indian agriculture due to increase in the demand for processed products …

We use a stochastic frontier approach corrected for self-selection to separate technology
and managerial gaps between the treatment and control groups of smallholders in baby …