The goal of the study was to identify forms of market institutions that would allow smallholder poultry producers to commercially produce broilers and eggs to raise household incomes under rapidly differentiating livestock markets in Bangladesh. The specific objectives were to:
1. Document the range and extent of contract farming and other organizational arrangements used in smallholder poultry production in Bangladesh.
2. Analyse the structure and conduct of the hatchery, feeds and equipment industries serving the poultry sector and compare the geographical distribution of and access to these inputs along with health, extension and credit services of poultry farming under independent and contract farming arrangements.
3. Identify factors that influence participation or non-participation in contract farming.
4. Compare net incomes and production and marketing costs under independent and contract farming arrangements.
5. Analyse determinants of cost per unit output and net income under independent and contract farming arrangements.
6. Identify policy implications of the findings to promote and facilitate profitable poultry farming.
