Advances and challenges in value chain development in ‘Kinnow’ mandarin and mango industries of Pakistan

Malik, Aman Ullah; Amin, Md. Shohel Reza; Asad, Habat Ullah

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2016.1128.42

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“…In contrast, proponents of MSC, including Minten et al (2009), Barrett et al (2012), Birthal et al (2017), and Montalbano et al (2018) argued that modern institutional arrangements like contract farming could successfully include small landholders in MSC. Small-scale farmers, also referred as subsistence farmers, face significant challenges in establishing supply chain networks due to factors like unfavorable weather conditions, difficulties in farm management, harvesting, and handling challenges, involvement of middlemen, quality standard complications, pest control, employment of untrained labor, sanitary and phytosanitary standards for premium markets, proper information dissemination to growers, energy deficits, and safety concerns in their countries (Malik et al, 2014). However, recent findings from developing countries indicate that engagement in MSC can enhance efficiency and productivity while addressing production and market-related challenges (Barrett et al, 2012;Birthal et al, 2017;Birthal et al, 2008;Chen et al, 2015;Montalbano et al, 2018;Mutura et al, 2016;Trifkovic and Farimagsgade, 2015).…”

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Beyond Subsistence: Linking Citrus Smallholders to High-Value Markets for Sustainable Supply Chain Development in Pakistan

Naseer,

Razzaq,

Ashfaq

et al. 2023

J. Econ. Impact

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Recent evidence suggests that Modern Supply Chains (MSC) in the agrifood industry have the potential to improve production efficiency and scale. However, the inclusion of smallholders for Sustainable Supply Chain Development (SSCD) is a growing concern for policymakers aiming to increase the profitability of farming communities. This study investigates the efficiency and inclusiveness of farmers in the citrus supply chain at the upstream level and factors responsible for SSCD using survey data from the Punjab province of Pakistan. The study employs endogenous treatment effect and principal component analysis apart from the descriptive analysis to explore study objectives. Results indicate that large farmers with abundant resources tend to participate in MSC, whereas smallholders are more likely to be inclined to Traditional Supply Chain (TSC) networks. The study also finds that participating in MSC has a positive impact on farmers' efficiency, and factors such as off-farm income, orchard size, education level, and access to extension services significantly affect profitability. The results of the principal component analysis revealed that for SSCD, six sets of factors, such as performance and quality, risk and climate, economics and market exploitation, knowledge and information, geographic and transportation, and innovation capability, are addressable. Therefore, these results suggest that policymakers should provide training programs, agriculture extension services, improved infrastructure, and educational facilities in rural areas to help smallholders alleviate poverty by creating sustainability in the agri-food industry.

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Beyond Subsistence: Linking Citrus Smallholders to High-Value Markets for Sustainable Supply Chain Development in Pakistan

Naseer,

Razzaq,

Ashfaq

et al. 2023

J. Econ. Impact

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“…Myriad snags deter the smallholder's inclusion and formation of inclusive supply chains where economic benefits drive the demand and supply chains, i.e., climatic conditions, farm management issues, harvest and handling issues, the role of intermediaries, quarantine-related issues, insect and pest management, unskilled labor, sanitary and phytosanitary requirements in the high-end markets, market information, energy shortfalls and security issues in the country [18]. However, recent evidence from developing countries showed that the MSC contributes to improving efficiency and production as well as mitigating production and market issues [2,15,16,[19][20][21][22].…”

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Farmers’ Participation in Modern Supply Chains: The Case of Mandarin Profitability in Punjab-Pakistan

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In developing countries, supply chains are rapidly transforming. However, smallholder farmers, in particular, have experienced mixed impacts in inclusion and exclusion from modern supply chains (MSCs). Therefore, by taking Pakistan’s mandarin industry as a case, this study aims to analyze the farmers’ efficiency and inclusiveness in modern supply chains and compare them across the farm size categories, i.e., small, medium, and large. For that purpose, cross-sectional data from 300 farmers were collected to test the posit objectives. The empirical investigation was made using the endogenous treatment effect model and the propensity score matching approach. Findings show that large farmers prefer to participate in MSCs, driven by contractors, processors or exporters. Conversely, the smallholders are more inclined to participate in the traditional supply chains (TSCs), driven by village vendors, local retailers/consumers, middlemen, and traditional fruit and vegetable markets. The results also revealed a positive connection between efficiency and farmers’ inclusion in the MSC. Orchard size, education, off-farm income, and extension services positively impact profitability. In terms of an increase in farmers’ profitability, the efficiency improvement can benefit the resource-poor smallholders who make up 74% of the total farmers in the sample. Therefore, these results are noteworthy for devising policy actions to facilitate smallholder inclusion in the modern agri-food supply chains to alleviate rural poverty and ensure farmers’ wellbeing.

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“…That means, only production and market instability related issues are reported. Despite the significant contributions of the agri-value chains approach in improving the livelihood of millions of smallholder's farmers in the Pakistan (Malik et al 2016;Mazhar et al 2022), this have not been given the research attention. Therefore, understanding the constraints and drivers related to pulses market and value chain development can be an effective and robust step towards encouraging farmers to grow more pulses and increasing the land allocated to pulses production.…”

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Identifying the Constraints and Opportunities for Increasing Pulses’ Production and Value Chain Development in Pakistan: A Delphi Approach

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Pulses are rich source of protein and linked to countless positive impacts on human health as well as plant health because these are the nitrogen fixing crops. Likewise, pulses centric meal are widely adopted as better source to overcome severe acute malnutrition. In Pakistan, decreasing trend in production and continuous rise in pulses prices reduced the economic access of the people particularly of people falling under poverty to pulses. Pulses are grown in the rain-fed areas in Pakistan. The unusual rainfall highly affects pulses crop and climatic conditions; therefore, farmers have a high risk of getting attractive prices consistently. Marketing of Pulses is mainly in private hands and farmers usually sell to village dealer without any value addition after harvesting. This research is designed to identify the constraints and opportunities for enhancing pulses production and value chain development in Pakistan through employing Delphi Approach. The results revealed that lack of availability of improved varieties/good quality seeds of pulses is identified as the most critical barrier in increasing the production and cropped area under the pulses. In addition, no policy support from the government, poor marketing, and no value chain existence resulting in low prices received by the farmer are also considered a source of the decline farmers' interest in the pulses. The findings of this study highlighted that development of pest, disease, and climate change-resistant varieties and development of competitive pulses value chains could play vital role in making Pakistan self-sufficient in the pulses. The findings identified here the important set of barriers and opportunities for the industry and policymakers. Hence these indicators should help farmers and relevant stakeholders to monitor pulses production sustainability and guide decision makers to make appropriate policies for pulses sector in Pakistan.

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Advances and challenges in value chain development in ‘Kinnow’ mandarin and mango industries of Pakistan

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Beyond Subsistence: Linking Citrus Smallholders to High-Value Markets for Sustainable Supply Chain Development in Pakistan

Beyond Subsistence: Linking Citrus Smallholders to High-Value Markets for Sustainable Supply Chain Development in Pakistan

Farmers’ Participation in Modern Supply Chains: The Case of Mandarin Profitability in Punjab-Pakistan

Identifying the Constraints and Opportunities for Increasing Pulses’ Production and Value Chain Development in Pakistan: A Delphi Approach

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