1st Edition
Transforming Agriculture in South Asia The Role of Value Chains and Contract Farming
Foreword
M. S. Swaminathan
1. Introduction
Ashok K. Mishra, Anjani Kumar and Pramod K. Joshi
Part I: Understanding the Agricultural Sector, Transformation, Value Chains and Contract Farming
2. Agriculture in South Asia: Trends and Prospects
Hiroyuki Takeshima
3. Agriculture on the Rise in Bangladesh: The Future Role of Value Chains
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Akbar Hossain and Md. Israil Hossain
4. Structural Transformation and Sources of Growth in South Asian Agriculture
Pratap S. Birthal and Ghanshyam Pandey
5. The Agricultural Sector in Nepal: Scope of Improvement and Value Chains
Ganesh Thapa
6. Financing Agricultural Value Chains
Pratap S. Birthal, Pramod K. Joshi and Jaweriah Hazrana
7. Role of Transaction Costs in Modern Food Retail Chains: Empirical Evidence from India
Kedar Vishnu and Alwin Dsouza
Part II: Case Studies in Contract Farming
8. Contract Farming in Lentils and Rice Seed Production: Case Studies from Nepal
Ashok K. Mishra, Anjani Kumar and Stefan Hirsch
9. Formal Versus Informal Milk Value Chains in Bangladesh: Trade-Offs Between Price and Food Safety
Anjani Kumar, Vinay K Sonkar and Sunil Saroj
10. Durum Wheat Value Chain in Pakistan: Scanning Current Picture and Exploring Future Potential
Akhter Ali and Tariq Saleem
11. Contract Farming and Farm Performance: Evidence from Brinjal Cultivation in Bangladesh
Anjani Kumar, Gaurav Tripathi, Devesh Roy, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam
12. Value Chains in Aquaculture and Fisheries in Bangladesh
Madan M. Dey and Prasanna Surathkal
13. Mango Value Chains in India
Madhuri Saripalle and Elumalai Kannan
14. Moving towards Sustainability: An Evaluation of Indian Coffee in the Global Food Value Chain
Parmod Kumar, A.V. Manjunatha and C.M. Devika
Part III: Contract Farming, Storage and Technical Efficiency
15. Indian Agriculture and Agro-Processing in the Global Value Chains
Seema Bathla and Abhishek Jha
16. Harvesting the Booming Potential: The Case of Maize Value Chain in Pakistan
Akhter Ali and Muhammad Umer Afzal
17. Storage and Structural Factors Determining the Commercialization of Indian Agriculture
A. Ganesh-Kumar and Varun Kumar Das
18. Agri-Commodity Futures and Value Chains
Tirtha Chatterjee, Raghav Raghunathan and Ashok Gulati
19. Contract Farming and Its Impact on Fertilizer Usage: Evidence from India
Ashok K. Mishra, Anjani Kumar and Alwin Dsouza
20. Assessing and Explaining the Technical Efficiency of Contract and Non-Contract Farms in India
A.V. Manjunatha, Parmod Kumar and Suman Kumar Sourav
21. Who Quits and Who Sustains Participation in Supermarket Supply Chain? An Insight from Aditya Birla More Supply Chain
D. Suganthi, S. Mahendra Dev and Vijay Laxmi Pandey
Biography
Ashok K. Mishra is Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation Chair, Morrison School of Agribusiness, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA.
Anjani Kumar is Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, South Asia Office, New Delhi, India.
Pramod K. Joshi is former Senior Advisor to the Director General and Director–South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, India.
