Contracting by small farmers in commodities with export potential: Assessing farm profits of lentil growers in Nepal

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dc.creatorKumar, Anjani
dc.creatorRoy, Devesh
dc.creatorTripathi, Gaurav
dc.creatorJoshi, Pramod Kumar
dc.creatorAdhikari, Rajendra Prasad
dc.date2016-05-20
dc.date2024-06-21T09:22:49Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:22:49Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:59:54Z
dc.descriptionThis study is undertaken to quantify the benefits of contract farming (CF) on farmers’ income in a case where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal. CF is emerging as an important form of vertical coordination in the agrifood supply chain. The prospect for CF in a country like Nepal with accessibility issues, underdeveloped markets, and a lack of amenities remains ambiguous. Contractors find it difficult to build links in these cases, particularly when final consumers have quality and safety requirements. However, a lack of other market opportunities makes the contracts more sustainable. The latter happens if there are product-specific quality advantages because of agroecology and, more important, lack of side-selling opportunities. Concerns remain about monoposonistic powers of the buyers when small farmers do not have outside options. Results of this study show that CF is significantly more profitable (81 percent greater net income) than independent production, the main pathway being higher yield and price realization. The positive impact of CF on farmers’ profits can help Nepal in harnessing the growing demand for pulses, especially in neighboring international markets, like India.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147408
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/91596
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149441
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147922
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/160711
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134431
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceKumar, Anjani; Roy, Devesh; Tripathi, Gaurav; Joshi, Pramod Kumar; and Adhikari, Rajendra Prasad. 2016. Contracting by small farmers in commodities with export potential: Assessing farm profits of lentil growers in Nepal. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1533. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147408
dc.subjectincome
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectmonoposonistic
dc.subjectlentils
dc.subjectsmallholders
dc.subjectmarkets
dc.subjectpulses
dc.subjectcontract farming
dc.titleContracting by small farmers in commodities with export potential: Assessing farm profits of lentil growers in Nepal
dc.typeWorking Paper

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