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Contract farming & poverty reduction: organic rice contract farming in Thailand (pdf 205kb)

This ADB paper discusses the use of rice farming contracting to reduce poverty in Thailand. Contract farming is emerging as a promising tool to facilitate transformation from subsistence to commercial agriculture. It also facilitates adoption of high-value crops such as organically grown crops.

Using data from a survey of 445 organic rice contract farmers and conventional rice non-contract farmers in Thailand, the paper adopts the profit frontier analysis and counterfactual analysis to assess the profitability and profit efficiency of farms at different scales of operation.

 

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