scholarly journals Economics of Optimizing Value Chain in Agriculture Sector of Nigeria through Mechanised Crop Processing and Marketing

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Nwele, J. Obasi ◽  
Ngene Amuche N ◽  
Udeaja Elias A.
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Crop Processing ◽  
Agriculture Sector

Food for All in Africa

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Conway ◽  
Ousmane Badiane ◽  
Katrin Glatzel
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Sustainable Intensification ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Agricultural Transformation

Africa requires a new agricultural transformation that is appropriate for Africa, that recognizes the continent's diverse environments and climates, and that takes into account its histories and cultures while benefiting rural smallholder farmers and their families. This book describes the key challenges faced by Africa's smallholder farmers and presents the concepts and practices of sustainable intensification as opportunities to sustainably transform Africa's agriculture sector and the livelihoods of millions of smallholders. The way forward, the book indicates, will be an agriculture sector deeply rooted within sustainable intensification: producing more with less, using fertilizers and pesticides more prudently, adapting to climate change, improving natural capital, adopting new technologies, and building resilience at every stage of the agriculture value chain. This book envisions a virtuous circle generated through agricultural development rooted in sustainable intensification that results in greater yields, healthier diets, improved livelihoods for farmers, and sustainable economic opportunities for the rural poor that in turn generate further investment. It describes the benefits of digital technologies for farmers and the challenges of transforming African agricultural policies and creating effective and inspiring leadership. The book demonstrates why we should take on the challenge and provides ideas and methods through which it can be met.

scholarly journals 3. Institutional Support Required To Integrate Small Farmers For Livestock Commodity Value Chain-A Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Taliyil P Sethumadhavan
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Livestock Products ◽  
Safety Knowledge ◽  
Consumer Tastes

Recent reports reveal that in the globalised era farming will move towards meat and milk production from traditional rice and grain agriculture in line with the changing consumer tastes. The joint report by Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome and the Paris based organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) of 34 leading world economies contained price and production forecasts to 2023 revealed that world meat production will have gone up by 58 million tones with developing countries making up 80 percent of increase. Report highlights that livestock production is projected to grow at higher rates than crop production. Moreover animal protein sources are easiest way through which protein malnutrition can be corrected easily. Since the commodity value of livestock products are high when compared to agriculture commodities in the coming years livestock products will the focus area for augmenting GDP in Agriculture sector. So institutional support are required for increasing production, productivity, food security, food safety, knowledge dissemination and services to achieve these objectives.

scholarly journals DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR – OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

2018 ◽  
Vol XX (2) ◽  
pp. 98-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kosior
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Productivity And Competitiveness

The aim of the paper is to discuss the major opportunities and challenges that emerge in the agri-food sector as a result of digitization processes. Digital technologies with Big Data and the Internet of Things are widely considered promising new tools for both increasing productivity and competitiveness in the agri-food sector and ensuring a more sustainable use of resources. Knowledge and insights derived from ever-increasing volumes and a variety of digital data may help to optimize farm production processes, improve risk management, predict market trends and enhance strategic decision-making capabilities. Yet, advanced data analytics has also the disruptive power to reshape the whole string of markets within the agriculture value chain. Digitization may fundamentally change the relations between technology and input suppliers, farms, traders, processing units, retailers and consumers. The first evidence shows that farm data markets suffer from specific drawbacks and limitations which may constrain the transformative potential of Big Data in the food and agriculture sector. The major concerns raised relate to farm data ownership and privacy issues, market power of major agriculture technology providers and uneven distribution of benefits accruing from digitization.

scholarly journals THEORIZING AGRICULTURE VALUE CHAINS: INTEGRATING SMALL HOLDER PRODUCERS TO OVERCOME HURDLES

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-164
Author(s):  
Hena M
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Agriculture Products ◽  
Small Holder

Modern marketing techniques and restructured markets for agriculture products has made the small holder producers to fight against a number of consequences which they are actually not practiced or trained. As an alternative, new innovative practice like value chain approach has been identified in improving their ability to combat the restructured market conditions. This paper reviews the theoretical justifications and different viewpoints of value chains approach which can benefit the small holder producers in agriculture sector. A review on evidences from agricultural value chain experiences exposed the necessity of a tool or a business model like value chain approach to integrate the small holder producers to viable markets and to capitalize the immense opportunities in the markets, particularly for least developed and developing countries. The literature revealed that small holder producer can access international markets by establishing value chain networks and by building relationships in chain networks.

scholarly journals Value Chains Of Carrot Commodity On Suthomadansih Agropolitan Area In Karanganyar Regency

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Dwi Feri Yatnanto ◽  
Indah Susilowati
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Value Chain Analysis ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Chain Analysis

<p><em>In 2007, Central Java Government has been starting the implementation of agropolitanprogram in some regency that has the potential in the agriculture sector, Karanganyar Regency one of them. Through this program, SuthomadansihAgropolitan Area was established. One of the leading commodities from Suthomadansih is carrot commodity. Carrot commodity is then taken into consideration in the implementation of agropolitan program, in the form of provision of infrastructure and community development programs. The objectives of the research study are to investigate the value chain of carrot in Suthomadansih, as well as to analyze how the implementation of agropolitan program supports the value chain of carrot. Meanwhile, in order to investigate how the implementation of agropolitan program in suthomadansih supports to value chain of carrot, there are three indicators that will be identified; the development of supporting infrastructure, agribusiness system, and development of human resource (Iqbal and Iwan, 2009). Both of qualitative and quantitative analysis has been applied into the study with the performance table of the implementation of agropolitan program and value chain analysis as tool to conduct the analysis. Based on the value chain of carrot in Suthomadansih, some development programs from Local Government through the agropolitan program has been conducted from upstream to downstream of carrot commodity. However, some programs are failed to support the value chain of carrot so that the improvement of value chain of carrot could not be optimized. Those programs are Agribusiness Sub Terminal, Worta Cluster, Vitmaka, and Farm Road Improvement Program.The implementation of agropolitan program is not sustainable because of the absence of the budgets of local governments. The program is only implemented for 3 years (2007-2009) so that there are no significant effects of the program on the agricultural sector, especially for carrot commodity.</em><em></em></p><em></em>

Transformation and Development of Agriculture Sector in Industrial Revolution 4.0 Era in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
pp. 214-233
Author(s):  
Ahmad Budi Setiawan ◽  
Amri Dunan ◽  
Bambang Mudjiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Depth Interviews

Indonesia is now entering the era of the digital economy. In the agricultural sector, the concept of Agricultural 4.0 was introduced as a form of digitization. The scope of agriculture in this chapter refers to the value chain of agricultural sector in utilizing information and communication technology for interaction between all stakeholders in the agricultural sector, where every activity is recorded so that they can make predictions, dosing, and tracing, with an automatic control system, and done remotely. Applying this technology will optimize results, both in quality and quantity as well as the efficiency of existing resources. The research on the transformation of the agricultural sector in the era of industrial Revolution 4.0 aims to study the digitalization strategy of the agricultural sector in the era of Technology 4.0. This research was carried out using a qualitative approach by conducting literature studies, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions. This chapter recommends the development of micro farming financing to increase the scale of digital agriculture's economy.

scholarly journals Evaluating Several Models of Quality Management and Impacts on Lychee Price Applying for Vietnam Agriculture Products Value Chain Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-130
Author(s):  
Pham Van Hong ◽  
Nguyen Thao Nguyen ◽  
Dinh Tran Ngoc Huy ◽  
Nguyen Thu Thuy ◽  
Le Thi Thanh Huong
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Agricultural Labor ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Strict Condition ◽  
Soil Irrigation ◽  
Principles And Standards ◽  
Agriculture Products ◽  
Bank System

Sustainability of Vietnam agriculture value chain will be dependent on various factors such as skills and experience of farmers, advanced technology, agricultural engineering, standards and models such as VIETGAP or GLOBAL GAP, etc. The role is still important, but Vietnam's agricultural production still has many Weakness points compared to other countries in the region when comparing resource use efficiency (land, water and labor). As a result, the efficiency of agricultural production tends to decrease recently. Specifically, the growth in average agricultural labor productivity annual rate of Vietnam also decreased correspondingly from 2.7% in the period 1990-1999 to 2.5% in the period 2000-2013 (World Bank, 2016). In Vietnam, we will evaluate the effectiveness of VIETGAP and GLOBAL GAP models, principles and standards applying in Vietnam agriculture value chain in a specific case study. The research results show a strict condition for applying VIETGAP and GLOBAL GAP for better quality in agriculture, including: Conditions for soil, irrigation water, fertilizers, pest control, etc. Last but not least, we also use an econometric model to measure impacts of multi macro factors on lychee price in Vietnam market over past years 2014-2019. Regression results show that we need to control inflation at low level, stable GDP growth and trade balance and exchange rate to stabilize lychee price. The research findings are of value to policy makers, farmers and investors in making decisions to invest for sustainability of Vietnam agriculture value chain. We will also make suggestions for commercial bank system in agriculture sector development.

scholarly journals Tarımsal Değer Zincirinde Değer Yaratan Faaliyetlerin Belirlenmesi

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 1002
Author(s):  
Uğur Başer ◽  
Mehmet Bozoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Product Differentiation ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Value Chain Analysis ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
A Value ◽  
Input Use ◽  
Chain Analysis

A value chain starts with the production of a primary commodity, ends with the consumption of the final product. The aim of this study was to explain the agricultural value chain and to determine of value-creating activities in the agriculture sector. The literature review approach was utilized in the research. The agricultural value chain has seven stages which are input supply, production, producer organizations, traders, processors, wholesalers, and retailers respectively. In the value chain, it is aimed to get advantages against competitors by increasing the quality of crops and products, product differentiation or increasing the efficiency of the system. While the production costs of agricultural crops and products were affected by the input use and technology, product differentiation could be realized by the approaches of organic agriculture and good agricultural practices, etc. Although large enterprises in the agricultural sector could handle the value chain as a whole, small and medium-sized enterprises which had to leave the process early should focus on creating value as long as they remain in the process. With value chain analysis approach, it would be possible to contribute to the solution of certain main problems in the agricultural sector.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Dairy Value Chain in Jordan

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Zainab Alhammd
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Cattle ◽  
Milk Production ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Small Ruminants ◽  
Goat Milk ◽  
Livestock Industry ◽  
Total Consumption ◽  
Sheep And Goats ◽  
Agriculture Sector

The objective of this report is to analyze the milk value chain in Jordan depending on information gathering by own experience and The Jordan’s ministry of agriculture report 2015. Total amount of milk production by dairy subsector is (266599) tons which represent 44% of total milk consumption, Sheep and Goat milk production is (78436) tons and the amount of imported    milk converted as fresh milk is (262845) tons, which is represent more than 43% of total consumption. The agriculture sector in Jordan consists of two main sub-sectors: Crop production and livestock industry. Livestock is estimated to contribute to about one-half of the total agricultural GDP. The production of food producing animals is valued to around JD820 million; JD435 million generated from the poultry industry and JD385 million from dairy cattle and small ruminants (sheep and goats) enterprises Ministry of Agriculture. The livestock industry consists of facilities of food producing animals (dairy cattle, poultry, sheep, and goats) and several supporting services (factories of veterinary medicines, feed factories, milk processing plants, slaughter houses, and marketing services).

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