TY - JOUR
T1 - Contractual agriculture
T2 - Better partnerships between small farmers and the business sector in the sultanate of oman
AU - Al Ruqishi, Badria Hamed
AU - Gibreel, Tarig
AU - Akaichi, Faical
AU - Zaibet, Lokman
AU - Zekri, Slim
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This study received a financial support. Competing Interests: The authors declared that they have no conflict of interests. Contributors/Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the internal grant (IG/AGR/ECON/18/01) and from Sultan Qaboos University bench fees given to PhDs students. This work also would not have been finalized without the assistance of Dr. Faical Akaichi from Scotland’s Rural College at Edinburgh University.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This study aims to elicit the preferences of Omani small-scale vegetable farmers towards contracting with different emerging and other potential business partners along with other contract terms. To accomplish this, a discrete choice experiment was adopted to elicit farmers' preferences towards different contract models. The choice data was analyzed using both latent classes as well as mixed logit models and as a result, three classes were found to best capture the preferences. Class 1 represents 45% of the respondents who are more likely to adopt the “multipartite contract” model. This segment is characterized by a high education level, older age, and smaller family size. The second class represents 31% of the sample and tends to adopt an “informal contract” model. This group has a low experience, larger farm size, and own their private land. The last class represents 23% of the observations and is in favour of the “centralized contract” model. The main characteristics of this class are the low education level, older age, and medium income. Realizing the farmers’ preferences and their characteristics are certainly important in improving farmers’ participation in the vegetables’ market and gearing the policies towards food security.
AB - This study aims to elicit the preferences of Omani small-scale vegetable farmers towards contracting with different emerging and other potential business partners along with other contract terms. To accomplish this, a discrete choice experiment was adopted to elicit farmers' preferences towards different contract models. The choice data was analyzed using both latent classes as well as mixed logit models and as a result, three classes were found to best capture the preferences. Class 1 represents 45% of the respondents who are more likely to adopt the “multipartite contract” model. This segment is characterized by a high education level, older age, and smaller family size. The second class represents 31% of the sample and tends to adopt an “informal contract” model. This group has a low experience, larger farm size, and own their private land. The last class represents 23% of the observations and is in favour of the “centralized contract” model. The main characteristics of this class are the low education level, older age, and medium income. Realizing the farmers’ preferences and their characteristics are certainly important in improving farmers’ participation in the vegetables’ market and gearing the policies towards food security.
KW - Contract farming
KW - Discrete choice
KW - Latent class model
KW - Mixed logit model
KW - Stated preferences
KW - Transaction costs
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U2 - 10.18488/journal.1005/2020.10.1/1005.1.321.335
DO - 10.18488/journal.1005/2020.10.1/1005.1.321.335
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85090645590
SN - 2304-1455
VL - 10
SP - 321
EP - 335
JO - Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development
JF - Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development
IS - 1
ER -
