Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse factors that determine farmers' intention to
commercialise vegetable-based agribusiness ventures in rural areas and assess the effect …

This article examines factors related to a livestock rental market in western Nepal and
assesses whether this market is associated with caste differentiation and land rental market …

This paper examines efficiency and equity in groundwater markets with special attention to
output sharing contracts and to the bargaining relationships between sellers and buyers …

The study reveals the effect of sharecropping on rice productivity in some selected areas of
Khulna District in the South-West region of Bangladesh. Access to land for the landless …

The caste system is an inherent part of Nepal's institutional structure, as are class formation,
political instability and conflict. The group the caste system discriminates against the most …

The author develops a theory of the choice of contractual arrangements in agriculture by
analyzing the incentives, risk‐premia, and agency (supervision and shirking) costs under …

Land is a prime factor of production for an agricultural country like Bangladesh and access
to land has been the major source of livelihood of farmers living in rural Bangladesh …

This paper assesses the implications of caste discrimination and past land reforms on the
land rental market performance, land productivity and land use intensity in Nepal. The most …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the role of culture in
general, and social distance in particular, in influencing the choice and efficiency of various …

The purpose of this study was to estimate the production technical efficiencies for share
contract of producing gum arabic and to test whether sharecropping is an efficient mode of …