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Contract Farming and the State: Experience of Thaliand and India

 
Sukhpal Singh (Author)
Synopsis This book examines the contract farming systems in Thailand and India with focus on the role of the state in the two countries. Contract farming in Thailand makes an interesting and important study as it has been promoted by the Thai state actively and the country has been a pioneer in this regard in South-East Asia. Now, contract farming is becoming popular in rest of the South-East and the Asian region including India where in many countries. State is encouraging it. Therefore, a study of contract farming system in Thailand which is considered to be a relative success is both crucial and timely. The present study is based on case studies for four agribusiness firms and their farmers in northern Thailand in potato and sweet corn crops, after an exhaustive survey and review of literature focusing on the spread an performance of contract farming in Thailand and the role of the state in it. These case studies focus on firm-farmer relationship and their perceptions about working of the contract system. After giving a conceptual and theoretical understanding of the contract farming system, the book goes on to give the rationale for examining the contract farming system in Thailand and India. It addresses as an important issue the role of the state in promotion of contract farming system in Thailand and India as the former has had a very formal intervention in this regard under the four sector co-operation plan, though it has not been seriously studied by researchers until now, and the latter has started intervening more recently. The study also attempts to look at the larger impacts of contracting on the local economy in the two countries. Finally, the book draws inferences about leveraging contract farming for agricultural development in India based on the Thai and the Indian experiences.
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About the author

Sukhpal Singh

Dr. Sukhpal singh is Associate Professor, Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. He has to his credit 65 research papers in national and international journals and in edited books on issues of agribusiness management and development including contract farming and international agro-trade, besides more then 35 articles in business dailies, weeklies, and magazines. He also has two books (rural marketing; and political economy of contract farming in India) to his credit He has been a visiting a fellow at the IDS, Sussex (UK), and the Chulalongkorn University, Bankok. His research and teaching interests are in vertical co-ordination of agribusiness chains and their governance. He has more than 14 years of teaching, training, research, and consultancy experience in agribusiness. Now, he teaches courses in marketing of agricultural inputs, and franchising in agribusiness, and is researching into issues of small farmer participation in global food and fibre chains.

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Bibliographic information

Title Contract Farming and the State: Experience of Thaliand and India
Author Sukhpal Singh
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2006
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 8178355116
length 382p., Figures; Tables; References; Index; 23cm.