Transforming Agriculture in South Asia : The Role of Value Chains and Contract Farming (Hardcover)

1. Introduction Ashok K. Mishra, Anjani Kumar and Pramod K. Joshi 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 Vishnu Kedar and Alwin Dsouza 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, A. H. M. S. 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 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