Inclusive Value Chains in Commodity Crops

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Contract Farming of Potatoes: An Attempt to Include Poor Farmers in the Value Chain

  • BACKGROUND

  • THE CONTRACT SYSTEM

  • VALUE CHAIN

  • FINANCING THE VALUE CHAIN

  • IMPACT OF THE INTERVENTION

  • REFERENCES

• Basmati Rice and Kohinoor Foods Limited

  • INDIAN BASMATI RICE INDUSTRY

  • BASMATI RICE CULTIVATION IN UTTARAKHAND

  • MARKETING PRIOR TO THE INTERVENTIONS OF KOHINOOR FOODS LTD

    • Mandi (The Marketing Yard)

    • Aadhtis (The Trading Agents)

    • Boli (The Auction) and The Sale to Rice Mills

    • Payments

    • Market Inefficiencies

  • KOHINOOR FOODS LTD — INTEGRATING SUPPLY CHAIN FOR ORGANIC BASMATI RICE

  • PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

    • Modus Operandi

    • Purchase of Paddy

    • Payments

    • Impacts of KFL Initiative

  • MAJOR CHALLENGES

  • FUTURE PROSPECTS

• Agrocel Industries

  • THE ORIGINS OF AGROCEL

  • THE GROWTH OF AGROCEL

  • AGROCEL'S COTTON INTERVENTION

  • THE COTTON VALUE CHAIN

  • THE IMPACT OF AGROCEL'S COTTON INITIATIVE

  • REFERENCES

• bioRe Organic Cotton

  • INTRODUCTION

  • HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE VALUE CHAIN

  • LINKING THE FARMER TO THE VALUE CHAIN

  • bIORE ASSOCIATION — THE SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE VALUE CHAIN

  • bIORE INDIA — THE PRODUCT

  • OTHER PARTS OF THE VALUE CHAIN

  • FURTHER READING