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oapen-20.500.12657-524302022-01-15T02:49:09Z Agricultural Value Chains in India Gulati, Ashok Ganguly, Kavery Wardhan, Harsh Open Access Value Chains Value Chain Financing Small Farm Holders Agri Marketing CISS-F Framework bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TV Agriculture & farming::TVB Agricultural science bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJM Management & management techniques::KJMV Management of specific areas::KJMV8 Purchasing & supply management bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value agricultural commodities in India. It is based on the understanding that agriculture is an integrated system that connects farming with logistics, processing and marketing. Farmer’s welfare being central to any agricultural policy makes it very pertinent to study how a value chain works and can be strengthened further to realize this policy goal. This book adds value to the existing research by studying the value chains end-to-end across a wide spectrum of agricultural commodities with the holistic lens of CISS-F. It is not enough that a value chain is competitive but not inclusive or it is competitive and inclusive but not sustainable. The issue of scalability is very critical to achieve macro gains in terms of greater farmer outreach and sectoral growth. The research undertaken here brings out some very useful insights for policymaking in terms of what needs to be done better to steer the agricultural value chains towards being more competitive, inclusive, sustainable and scalable. The value chain specific research findings help draw very nuanced policy recommendations as well as present a big picture of the future direction of policy making in agriculture. 2022-01-14T13:41:28Z 2022-01-14T13:41:28Z 2022 book ONIX_20220114_9789813342682_23 9789813342682 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52430 eng India Studies in Business and Economics application/pdf n/a 978-981-33-4268-2.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-981-33-4268-2 Springer Nature Springer Singapore 10.1007/978-981-33-4268-2 10.1007/978-981-33-4268-2 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 f05c5651-0bb6-48ad-8b68-c41e4ea5fd71 9789813342682 Springer Singapore 298 [grantnumber unknown] open access
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This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value agricultural commodities in India. It is based on the understanding that agriculture is an integrated system that connects farming with logistics, processing and marketing. Farmer’s welfare being central to any agricultural policy makes it very pertinent to study how a value chain works and can be strengthened further to realize this policy goal. This book adds value to the existing research by studying the value chains end-to-end across a wide spectrum of agricultural commodities with the holistic lens of CISS-F. It is not enough that a value chain is competitive but not inclusive or it is competitive and inclusive but not sustainable. The issue of scalability is very critical to achieve macro gains in terms of greater farmer outreach and sectoral growth. The research undertaken here brings out some very useful insights for policymaking in terms of what needs to be done better to steer the agricultural value chains towards being more competitive, inclusive, sustainable and scalable. The value chain specific research findings help draw very nuanced policy recommendations as well as present a big picture of the future direction of policy making in agriculture.
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