Contacts Farming and the State: Experiences of Thailand and India - Hardcover

The book examines the contract farming systems in Thailand and India with focus on the role of the State in these two countries. The study is based on case studies of four agri-Business firms and their farmers in Northern Thailand in potato and sweet corn crops. This study also attempts to look out the larger impacts of contracting on the local economy in these two countries. The book will he highly useful for stake holders in contract farming-policy makers, academics, agri-business firms etc., , Contents:- Preface · Intrduction · Review of International Experience and Issues · Contract Farming in Thiland - A Review · Context, Objectives and Scope of the Study · Contract Framing in Norht Thiland · Contract Farming in Potato - Two case studies in North Thiland · Nature of Contracts in Thiland · State and Contract Farming in Thiland · Contract Farming in Thiland: Summary and Conclusions · Crisis and Diversification Punjab Agriculture and Contract Farming: Role of State and Agrobusiess · Co-operative as Contractor: A case study of contract farming by MARKFED in Punjab · Contract Farming of Seed in India: A Study of Private and Public Sector Performance · Contract Farming in India: Impacts on Women and Child Workers · Leveraging Contract Farming for Agricultural Devlopment in India: Lesson from Thiland and Beyond · Appendix 1 · Appendix 2 · Index.