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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsIntroductionEngaging in contract farming represents a crucial avenue for developing countries to integrate small farmers into modern agricultural practices.
Qi Li, Zixuan Wang
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Agriculture, 2021 This study empirically analyzes the influence of contract farming on income and farming difficulties in Vietnam by using the econometric models and theoretically identifying the affecting mechanism of contract farming on income, sustainability, and ...
Viet Hoang
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Discover AgricultureParticipation in contract farming has the potential to enhance farmers’ income and livelihoods both in developed and developing countries, yet the influence of literacy levels on such agri-systems remains insufficiently explored.
Finias Dogeje +2 more
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Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies, 2021 Contract farming is an arrangement in which buyers request farmers to provide agricultural goods under contract, as opposed to procuring these in spot markets. This chapter provides an introduction to contract farming and explains its significance and considerable expansion in contemporary agriculture.
Perez Nino, Helena, Oya, Carlos
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Designing incentive mechanism in contract farming considering reciprocity preference [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Contract farming is a growing practice in agricultural economy. A well-designed crop-planting and buyout contract, offered by an enterprise, to a fraction of contract farmers brings benefit to farmers as well as to the enterprise itself.
Cuixia Wang, Yurong Liang
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Contract farming and sesame productivity of smallholder farmers in Western Tigray, Ethiopia
Cogent Food & AgricultureContract farming was implemented in Tigray to improve access to support and marketing services and ensure consistency in the volume of supplied products. However, its impact has not been examined yet.
Haileslasie Gereziher Hailu +1 more
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Does contract farming affect technical efficiency? Evidence from soybean farmers in Northern Ghana
Agricultural and Food Economics, 2023 Understanding how and the extent to which contract farming arrangements impact agricultural productivity is important to ensuring that policies are designed to maximize the likelihood of success.
Ayeduvor Selorm +4 more
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Agriculture, 2022 Specialized suppliers to supermarkets in rural Java showed that smallholder farmers could engage in contract farming with the rise of retail modernization.
Shinya Ikeda, Ronnie S. Natawidjaja
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Contract farming and pro-environmental behavior: insights from beef cattle farmers
Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsIntroductionFacilitating and motivating farmers to adopt standardized pro-environmental production technologies serve as a solution to agricultural surface pollution.
Yuan Liang +4 more
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Impact of smallholder banana contract farming on farm productivity and income in Kenya
Cogent Economics & FinanceSmallholder banana farmers in Kenya grapple with declining farm productivity and low market prices in a fragmented, broker-dominated market. To address these challenges, the Kenya National Banana Development Strategy advocates for the adoption of ...
Michael Murigi +2 more
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