Optimal Crop Choice, Irrigation Allocation, and the Impact of Contract Farming

Huh, Woonghee Tim; Lall, Upmanu

doi:10.1111/poms.12007

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“…This involves identifying the farmer's decision criteria, as modeled in Huh and Lall (2008), and understanding the manufacturer's multifaceted objective structure e as well as setting up appropriate oversight and incentive mechanisms by regulatory agencies.…”

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“…There is a large body of literature on the application of operations research and operations management to the farmer's crop planning e see, for example, Glen (1987), Lowe and Preckel (2004) and Huh and Lall (2008). When the yield is uncertain, there is a risk of supply and demand mismatch and such a risk is managed and mitigated by the capacity-production decision that accounts for such uncertainty (Allen & Schuster, 2004;Kazaz, 2008), or by the second production opportunity (Jones, Kegler, Lowe, & Traub, 2003;Jones, Lowe, Traub, & Kegler, 2001;Jones, Lowe, & Traub, 2002;Kazaz, 2008).…”

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Contract farming with possible reneging in a developing country: Can it work?

Huh

Athanassoglou

Lall

2012

IIMB Management Review

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We consider a processed-food manufacturer that faces uncertain exogenous demand and procures a farm crop either from the outside market or from local farmers via contract farming. The contract price is determined at the beginning of the season when the market price is still uncertain. When the market price is realised, we allow the farmer the possibility of reneging from the contract, which occurs if the market price is sufficiently high. We show that granting farmers the option of reneging on the contract may improve the manufacturer's expected profit, and identify the conditions under which such an improvement can be expected.

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Contract farming with possible reneging in a developing country: Can it work?

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Athanassoglou

Lall

2012

IIMB Management Review

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“…-Water allocation and water pricing: a water allocation system needs to be put in place depending on the productivity and yield of crops (Huh and Lall, 2013). Water allocation and pricing should follow an optimal cropping policy (Devineni and Perveen, 2012).…”

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Water–food–energy nexus with changing agricultural scenarios in India during recent decades

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Ghosh

Sahana

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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Meeting the growing water and food demands in a densely populated country like India is a major challenge. It requires an extensive investigation into the changing patterns of the checks and balances behind the maintenance of food security at the expense of depleting groundwater, along with high energy consumption. Here we present a comprehensive set of analyses which assess the present status of the waterfood-energy nexus in India, along with its changing pattern, in the last few decades. We find that with the growth of population and consequent increase in the food demands, the food production has also increased, and this has been made possible with the intensification of irrigation. However, during the recent decade (after 1996), the increase in food production has not been sufficient to meet its growing demands, precipitating a decline in the per-capita food availability. We also find a statistically significant declining trend of groundwater storage in India during the last decade, as derived from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite datasets. Regional studies reveal contrasting trends between northern and western-central India. North-western India and the middle Ganga basin show a decrease in the groundwater storage as opposed to an increasing storage over western-central India. Comparison with well data reveals that the highest consistency of GRACE-derived storage data with available well measurements is in the middle Ganga basin. After analysing the data for the last 2 decades, we further showcase that, after a drought, the groundwater storage drops but is unable to recover to its original condition even after good monsoon years. The groundwater storage reveals a very strong negative correlation with the electricity consumption for agricultural usage, which may also be considered as a proxy for groundwater pumped for irrigation in a region. The electricity usage for agricultural purposes has an increasing trend and, interestingly, it does not have any correlation with the monsoon rainfall as computed with the original or de-trended variables. This reveals an important finding that the irrigation has been intensified irrespective of rainfall. This also resulted in a decreasing correlation between the food production and monsoon rainfall, revealing the increasing dependency of agricultural activities on irrigation. We conclude that irrigation has now become essential for agriculture to meet the food demand; however, it should be judiciously regulated and controlled, based on the water availability from monsoon rainfall, specifically after the drought years, as it is essential to recover from the deficits suffered previously.

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“…A most recent natural disaster, Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda), made companies with agricultural SC located in the disaster region in Philippines face serious risks of disruption. According to Maplecroft estimates, some 120,000 metric tons (MT) of sugar and 131,600 MT of rice were damaged, affecting supply in the ''medium term'' (Alegado, 2013;Huh and Lall, 2013). Disruption may occur in any links of the SC from upstream to downstream.…”

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