Transforming Agriculture in South Asia

1. Introduction Part I: Understanding the Agricultural Sector, Transformation, Value Chains and Contract Farming 2. Agriculture in South Asia: Trends and Prospects 3. Agriculture on the Rise in Bangladesh: The Future Role of Value Chains 4. Structural Transformation and Sources of Growth in South Asian Agriculture 5. The Agricultural Sector in Nepal: Scope of Improvement and Value Chains 6. Financing Agricultural Value Chains 7. Role of Transaction Costs in Modern Food Retail Chains: Empirical Evidence from India Part II: Case Studies in Contract Farming 8. Contract Farming in Lentils and Rice Seed Production: Case Studies from Nepal 9. Formal Versus Informal Milk Value Chains in Bangladesh: Trade-Offs Between Price and Food Safety 10. Durum Wheat Value Chain in Pakistan: Scanning Current Picture and Exploring Future Potential 11. Contract Farming and Farm Performance: Evidence from Brinjal Cultivation in Bangladesh 12. Value Chains in Aquaculture and Fisheries in Bangladesh 13. Mango Value Chains in India 14. Moving towards Sustainability: An Evaluation of Indian Coffee in the Global Food Value Chain Part III: Contract Farming, Storage and Technical Efficiency 15. Indian Agriculture and Agro-Processing in the Global Value Chains 16. Harvesting the Booming Potential: The Case of Maize Value Chain in Pakistan 17. Storage and Structural Factors Determining the Commercialization of Indian Agriculture 18. Agri-Commodity Futures and Value Chains 19. Contract Farming and Its Impact on Fertilizer Usage: Evidence from India 20. Assessing and Explaining the Technical Efficiency of Contract and Non-Contract Farms in India 21. Who Quits and Who Sustains Participation in Supermarket Supply Chain? An Insight from Aditya Birla More Supply Chain