Formal Versus Informal: Efficiency, Inclusiveness and Financing of Dairy Value Chains in Indian Punjab

Birthal, Pratap S.; Chand, Ramesh; Joshi, Pramod Kumar; Saxena, Raka; Rajkhowa, Pallavi; Khan, Md. Tajuddin; Khan, Mohd Arshad; Chaudhary, Khyali Ram

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-5957-5_4

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“…Larger farms increased their output per acre and proportion of area under modern varieties (MV) due to their accessibility to cheaper credit. In addition, Birthal et al (2016) examined crop performance in 20 Indian states. The authors found that small farmers benefitted from technological development by allocating more high-yielding crops and applying more fertilizer and pesticides than larger farms.…”

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Assessing inverse relationship in joint farm decision-making households: An empirical evidence from Eastern India

Malabayabas

Mishra²

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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In the eastern India region, due to the dominance of fragmented and smaller land holdings and lack of irrigation facilities, the adoption of green revolution technologies has progressed slowly. Economic growth, income, and land fragmentation have induced families to allocate labor to non-farm jobs. In the absence of male decision-makers, spouses are responsible for making farming-related decisions jointly with their husbands. This study examines the inverse relationship between farm size and rice productivity in joint farm decision-making among married couples. The study uses survey data from four eastern states of India. The finding confirms the inverse relationship between cultivated rice area and rice yields. The inverse relationship holds but weakens when we control for farm and household characteristics and land quality. Smallholders in India tend to have dual employment, and as a result, more farm management decisions are being made jointly with spouses. Findings indicate that joint farming decision-making may have an adverse effect on rice productivity. Socially advantaged farmers have a lower yield. Finally, the study reveals that off-farm income from off-farm employment increases rice productivity. Policymakers can strengthen extension services to disseminate farming knowledge (agronomic practices and technology) to socially disadvantaged farmers and off-farm job opportunities for smallholders.

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Assessing inverse relationship in joint farm decision-making households: An empirical evidence from Eastern India

Malabayabas

Mishra²

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…In total, we sampled 458 smallholder rice farmers, comprising 206 value chain participants and 252 nonparticipants. In the context of this study, value chain participants are smallholder farmers who are beneficiaries of the ongoing rice value chain development project (USAID Feed the Future [FtF]) in northern Ghana, and have established contractual relationships (written or verbal) with produce buying or processing companies under the facilitation and coordination of officials of the project (formalized value chain) (Birthal et al, 2016; Seville, Buxton, & Vorley, 2011). These farmers have received capacity building and input support from the project, and have also successfully supplied paddy to these produce buying and processing companies for at least the past three years.…”

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“…These farmers have received capacity building and input support from the project, and have also successfully supplied paddy to these produce buying and processing companies for at least the past three years. On the other hand, nonparticipants are smallholder farmers who produce and supply paddy in the traditional or open market (informal value chain) (Birthal et al, 2016; Seville et al, 2011). These farmers normally supply to traders/aggregators, who do not usually hold farmers to quality and packaging standards.…”

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Social networks, rice value chain participation and market performance of smallholder farmers in Ghana

Abdul‐Rahaman

Abdulai

2020

African Development Review

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This paper examines the impact of rice value chain participation and social networks on smallholder farmers' market performance outcomes (paddy price, quantity of paddy traded, and net returns), using data from a recent survey of 458 smallholder rice farmers in northern Ghana. We employed a treatment effects model to account for potential selection bias associated with observable and unobservable factors. The empirical results reveal that smallholder farmers' participation in a rice value chain is associated with increased paddy price, quantity traded, and net returns. We also find that value chain participation decisions and market performance are positively and significantly influenced by social networks. The empirical results also suggest that sex, farm size, mobile phone ownership, and access to credit significantly increase paddy prices, quantity traded, and net returns of smallholder rice farmers in the value chain. 1 | INTRODUCTION In the past 2-3 decades, agricultural value chains in developing countries have experienced dramatic structural transformation, driven by several factors such as population growth, rising urbanization, increasing consumer incomes, and varying consumer dietary requirements (

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“…Formal dairy sector is under developed in local remote areas, milk sales in distant markets with higher transaction cost compels small dairy farmers for informal sectors (Birthal et al 2005). Formal sector consist of dairy cooperatives and private processor which procures 23 per cent of total milk production and remaining 77 per cent is being procured by informal dairy sector which consists of small dairy processing units, milk vendors and halwais (Sharma, 2015;Birthal et al 2017). There has been constant rise in expenditure on milk and milk products, 14 per cent (Urban) in 1970 to 20 per cent in 2011 (NSSO 68 th round) on total food items.…”

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Economic analysis of informal dairy processing units in Karnal district of Haryana

Thakur

Dixit

Km³

2020

IJDS

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Indian dairy sector is a blend of formal (cooperatives and private) and informal sector (small processing units, milk vendors etc.). Informal sector still dominates in terms of procurement of the sizeable milk surplus of the country. The present paper has examined the cost and return structure of 27 informal dairy processing units in Karnal district of Haryana for the year 2018-19. The net returns of these processing units are mainly attributed to varying level of milk handling capacity and diversification towards value added products. Dahi turned out to be most profitable product with 53 per cent of profit over cost followed by ghee (12.75 %). The costs of dairy products were found to be decreasing with rising milk processing capacity. Solvency status of dairy processing units was found to be satisfactory yet there is a need for further strengthening.

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Formal Versus Informal: Efficiency, Inclusiveness and Financing of Dairy Value Chains in Indian Punjab

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Assessing inverse relationship in joint farm decision-making households: An empirical evidence from Eastern India

Assessing inverse relationship in joint farm decision-making households: An empirical evidence from Eastern India

Social networks, rice value chain participation and market performance of smallholder farmers in Ghana

Economic analysis of informal dairy processing units in Karnal district of Haryana

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