Contract Farming and Poverty Reduction: the Case of Organic Rice Contract Farming in Thailand
Setboonsarng, Sununtar; Leung, PingSun; Cai, Junning | May 2006
Abstract
In the neighboring country of Thailand where the stage of agriculture development is more advanced and where contract farming has been widely adopted, there may be important lessons to be learnt for Lao, PDR and Cambodia. Due to the growing demand of organic rice in developed countries, in 2003, the Ministry of Agriculture and Agriculture Cooperatives of Thailand commissioned a study to investigate the potential of developing organic rice in Thailand for export. The study included a farm household survey covering 445 contract and non-contract rice farming in five provinces in the North and Northeastern regions of Thailand. The farms covered in the dataset share many characteristics with the rural sector in Lao PDR and Cambodia, where the vast majority are smallholder farms in marginal areas, with excess labor and little or almost no access to agricultural extension services. This data is examined here using econometric analysis to evaluate the profitability and profit efficiency of rice contract farming, as compared with rice non-contract farming, in Thailand.
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Setboonsarng, Sununtar; Leung, PingSun; Cai, Junning. 2006. Contract Farming and Poverty Reduction: the Case of Organic Rice Contract Farming in Thailand. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3637. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Agriculture
Health
Health Impacts
Public Health
Sustainable agriculture
Commercial agriculture
Public Health Care
Education, Health and Social Protection
Access to Health Services
Health Aspects of Poverty
Health Objectives
Diseases
Agricultural education
Sustainable development
Environmental management
Disease Control
Prenatal Care
Safety Education
Water Quality
Animal Diseases
Agricultural diversification
Agricultural resource
Farm produce
Rice farming
Soil science
Agricultural information network
Agricultural landscape management
Farm management
Agricultural innovations
Technological innovations
Agricultural processing industry
Alternative agriculture
Organic dairy farming
Organic floriculture
Organic viticulture
Produce trade
Crop
Organic gardening
Export
Import
International competition
Commercial policy
International trade
Farm population
Agricultural population
Health of workers
Cost of medical care
Prevention of disease
Sickness
Health status indicators
Food
Food Supply
Farm supply industry
Produce trade
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