Contract farming is generally defined under an agreement between farmers and a Sponsor (e.g. processor, exporter, and marketing firm) for the production and supply of agricultural products under a Forward Agreement at pre-determined prices. The basis of the relationship between the parties is a commitment on the part of (i) [...]

Karnataka is one of the nine major cotton-growing states in the country. Of late organic cultivation of colored cotton has carved a niche entry in Dhrawad district of Karnataka under the platform of colored cotton under organic farming. Agricultural Research Station, Dharwad under the jurisdiction of the University of Agricultural [...]

This paper examines the revenue effects of certified organic contract farming and of use of organic farming methods in a tropical African context. These are compared with 'organic by default' conventional farming systems without contractual relations. Survey data (covering 60 households) from a medium-size cocoa-vanilla contract farming scheme in Uganda [...]

It is argued that crop diversification under the integrated institutional set-up of corporate contract farming (processing, packaging and retailing) may displace the petty manufacturing and services that have matured over the years in different parts of rural India as a constituent of an endogenous process driven by agricultural growth and [...]

This paper attempts to develop a consistent theory for the choice of performance contracts in agriculture by analyzing the trade-off between quantity and quality and the presence of competence and uncertainty on the basis of the expected utility theory. This theory is able to explain many contract-related issues, such as [...]

The paper examines the revenue effects of certified organic contract farming for smallholders and of adoption of organic agricultural farming methods in a tropical African context. The comparison in both cases is with farming systems that are “organic by default.” Survey data from a large organic coffee contract farming scheme [...]

This paper reviews and compares two market-driven strategies: contract farming and producer marketing cooperatives. In passing, the paper critiques the single-minded contract farming emphasis adopted by the New Partnership for African Development and its Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (NEPAD-CAADP). Pursuing ideas put forward by Burt Swanson, the International Food [...]

This chapter investigates the role of trust in a contractual relationship in agricultural commodity markets. The case study was conducted in the sugar supply chain in Swaziland and conceptualizes the supply chain as a series of connected activities concerned with planning, coordinating, and controlling the production of sugar, starting with [...]

This study identifies the pros and cons of a contract programmes on Coleus crops under six major dimensions, i.e., farming dimension, extension dimension, market dimension, economic dimension, social dimension and other dimensions; and recommends measures for better performance. A survey was conducted of 100 farmers from the Attur and Gangavalli [...]

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 [...]