Dairy contract farming in Bangladesh: Implications for welfare and food safety

Contract farming is emerging as an important institutional innovation in the high value food chain in developing countries including Bangladesh, and its socioeconomic implications are topic of interest in policy debates. This study is an empirical assessment to explore the determinants of participat...

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Autores principales: Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful, Roy, Devesh, Kumar, Anjani, Tripathi, Gaurav, Joshi, Pramod Kumar
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146727
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author Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful
Roy, Devesh
Kumar, Anjani
Tripathi, Gaurav
Joshi, Pramod Kumar
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Kumar, Anjani
Roy, Devesh
Tripathi, Gaurav
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Kumar, Anjani
Tripathi, Gaurav
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description Contract farming is emerging as an important institutional innovation in the high value food chain in developing countries including Bangladesh, and its socioeconomic implications are topic of interest in policy debates. This study is an empirical assessment to explore the determinants of participation and the impact of contract farming on welfare and adoption of food safety practice in Bangladesh. Our analysis indicates that contract farmers are more likely to have better access to agricultural extension services, attended proportionately more community meetings, households members are member of organizations, access more credit, are located farther from output market, and have larger herd sizes. We also find that network variables such as time spent with cooperatives and other institutions and price fluctuation and average prices received experience before participation in contract are strongly associated with participation in contract farming. We find that contract farming has a robust positive impact on welfare measured by expenditure, farm profit and farm productivity, and food safety practice adoption even after innovatively controlling for observed and unobserved heterogeneity among dairy farmers. More specifically results indicate that a one unit increase in the likelihood of participating in contract farming is associated with a 42, 35,34 and 9 percent increase in household expenditure, gross margin and net margin per cow, and food safety practice adoption rate respectively, among other positive impacts.
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spelling CGSpace1467272025-11-06T05:03:55Z Dairy contract farming in Bangladesh: Implications for welfare and food safety Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Roy, Devesh Kumar, Anjani Tripathi, Gaurav Joshi, Pramod Kumar dairy farming regression analysis welfare capacity development food safety productivity agricultural productivity contract farming household consumption profit Contract farming is emerging as an important institutional innovation in the high value food chain in developing countries including Bangladesh, and its socioeconomic implications are topic of interest in policy debates. This study is an empirical assessment to explore the determinants of participation and the impact of contract farming on welfare and adoption of food safety practice in Bangladesh. Our analysis indicates that contract farmers are more likely to have better access to agricultural extension services, attended proportionately more community meetings, households members are member of organizations, access more credit, are located farther from output market, and have larger herd sizes. We also find that network variables such as time spent with cooperatives and other institutions and price fluctuation and average prices received experience before participation in contract are strongly associated with participation in contract farming. We find that contract farming has a robust positive impact on welfare measured by expenditure, farm profit and farm productivity, and food safety practice adoption even after innovatively controlling for observed and unobserved heterogeneity among dairy farmers. More specifically results indicate that a one unit increase in the likelihood of participating in contract farming is associated with a 42, 35,34 and 9 percent increase in household expenditure, gross margin and net margin per cow, and food safety practice adoption rate respectively, among other positive impacts. 2019-05-02 2024-06-21T09:08:29Z 2024-06-21T09:08:29Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146727 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146502 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147752 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133672 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133684 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134431 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2019.01.010 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.01.005 https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-019-00207-5 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133518 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful; Roy, Devesh; Kumar, Anjani; Tripathi, Gaurav; and Joshi, Pramod Kumar. 2019. Dairy contract farming in Bangladesh: Implications for welfare and food safety. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1833. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146727
spellingShingle dairy farming
regression analysis
welfare
capacity development
food safety
productivity
agricultural productivity
contract farming
household consumption
profit
Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful
Roy, Devesh
Kumar, Anjani
Tripathi, Gaurav
Joshi, Pramod Kumar
Dairy contract farming in Bangladesh: Implications for welfare and food safety
title Dairy contract farming in Bangladesh: Implications for welfare and food safety
title_full Dairy contract farming in Bangladesh: Implications for welfare and food safety
title_fullStr Dairy contract farming in Bangladesh: Implications for welfare and food safety
title_full_unstemmed Dairy contract farming in Bangladesh: Implications for welfare and food safety
title_short Dairy contract farming in Bangladesh: Implications for welfare and food safety
title_sort dairy contract farming in bangladesh implications for welfare and food safety
topic dairy farming
regression analysis
welfare
capacity development
food safety
productivity
agricultural productivity
contract farming
household consumption
profit
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146727
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