The quiet revolution in Asia's rice value chains
There is a rapid transformation afoot in the rice value chain in Asia. The upstream is changing quickly—farmers are undertaking capital‐led intensification and participating in burgeoning markets for land rental, fertilizer and pesticides, irrigation water, and seed, and shifting from subsistence to...
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| author | Reardon, Thomas Chen, Kevin Z. Minten, Bart Adriano, Lourdes Dao, The Anh Wang, Jianying Das Gupta, Sunipa |
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| description | There is a rapid transformation afoot in the rice value chain in Asia. The upstream is changing quickly—farmers are undertaking capital‐led intensification and participating in burgeoning markets for land rental, fertilizer and pesticides, irrigation water, and seed, and shifting from subsistence to small commercialized farms; in some areas landholdings are concentrating. Midstream, in wholesale and milling, there is a quiet revolution underway, with thousands of entrepreneurs investing in equipment, increasing scale, diversifying into higher quality, and the segments are undergoing consolidation and vertical coordination and integration. Mills, especially in China, are packaging and branding, and building agent networks in wholesale markets, and large mills are building direct relationships with supermarkets. The downstream retail segment is undergoing a “supermarket revolution,” again with the lead in change in China. In most cases the government is not playing a direct role in the market, but enabling this transformation through infrastructural investment. The transformation appears to be improving food security for cities by reducing margins, offering lower consumer rice prices, and increasing quality and diversity of rice. This paper discusses findings derived from unique stacked surveys of all value chain segments in seven zones, more and less developed, around Bangladesh, China, India, and Vietnam. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1504282025-02-24T06:48:04Z The quiet revolution in Asia's rice value chains Reardon, Thomas Chen, Kevin Z. Minten, Bart Adriano, Lourdes Dao, The Anh Wang, Jianying Das Gupta, Sunipa value chains development rice agriculture markets There is a rapid transformation afoot in the rice value chain in Asia. The upstream is changing quickly—farmers are undertaking capital‐led intensification and participating in burgeoning markets for land rental, fertilizer and pesticides, irrigation water, and seed, and shifting from subsistence to small commercialized farms; in some areas landholdings are concentrating. Midstream, in wholesale and milling, there is a quiet revolution underway, with thousands of entrepreneurs investing in equipment, increasing scale, diversifying into higher quality, and the segments are undergoing consolidation and vertical coordination and integration. Mills, especially in China, are packaging and branding, and building agent networks in wholesale markets, and large mills are building direct relationships with supermarkets. The downstream retail segment is undergoing a “supermarket revolution,” again with the lead in change in China. In most cases the government is not playing a direct role in the market, but enabling this transformation through infrastructural investment. The transformation appears to be improving food security for cities by reducing margins, offering lower consumer rice prices, and increasing quality and diversity of rice. This paper discusses findings derived from unique stacked surveys of all value chain segments in seven zones, more and less developed, around Bangladesh, China, India, and Vietnam. 2014 2024-08-01T02:51:48Z 2024-08-01T02:51:48Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150428 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153274 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155042 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155043 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155359 Limited Access Wiley Reardon, Thomas; Chen, Kevin Z.; Minten, Bart; Adriano, Lourdes; Dao, The Anh; Wang, Jianying; and Gupta, Sunipa Das. 2014. The quiet revolution in Asia's rice value chains. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1331(December 2014): 106-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12391 |
| spellingShingle | value chains development rice agriculture markets Reardon, Thomas Chen, Kevin Z. Minten, Bart Adriano, Lourdes Dao, The Anh Wang, Jianying Das Gupta, Sunipa The quiet revolution in Asia's rice value chains |
| title | The quiet revolution in Asia's rice value chains |
| title_full | The quiet revolution in Asia's rice value chains |
| title_fullStr | The quiet revolution in Asia's rice value chains |
| title_full_unstemmed | The quiet revolution in Asia's rice value chains |
| title_short | The quiet revolution in Asia's rice value chains |
| title_sort | quiet revolution in asia s rice value chains |
| topic | value chains development rice agriculture markets |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150428 |
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