Inclusiveness, Technology and Profitability in Supermarkets: SUR Model Results from Semi-Arid Region

• Published in: The Indian journal of agricultural economics Vol. 73; no. 3; pp. 293 - 308
• Main Authors: Rao, N Chandrasekhara, Sutradhar, Rajib, Reardon, Thomas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bombay Indian Society of Agricultural Economics 01.07.2018
• Edition: 902
• Subjects: Agribusiness; Agricultural marketing; Agricultural production; Arid regions; Arid zones; Consumer/Household Economics; Consumers; Decision making; Dependent variables; Developing countries; Diffusion of technology; Econometrics; Economics; Farmers; Food; Households; Inclusiveness; Irrigation; LDCs; Maximum likelihood method; New technology; Panel data; Participation; Prices; Probit model; Productivity; Profitability; Random variables; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Robustness; Rural communities; Semi arid areas; Semiarid zones; Supermarkets; Technology; Technology adoption; Transformation; Value chain; India
• ISSN: 0019-5014
• DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.343371

Enhancing productivity is not a sufficient condition to raise the farmers' income and enabling higher share of consumers' price through 'disintermediation' holds the key to this. This latter task needs ways and means to obviate market failures in developing countries perpetrated...