Private sugar processors in Andhra Pradesh, India use an unusual form of vertical coordination. They issue 'permits' to selected cane growers a few weeks before harvest. These permits specify the amount of cane to be delivered during a narrow time period. This article investigates why processors...

1 Theoretical Framework -- 2 The Origins and Development of a Plantation Economy -- 3 the Sugar Industry Post-Independence -- 4 The Avalanche of Trade Liberalization Since the 1990s -- 5 The Response -- 6 Conditions of the Industry and the Monymusk Sugar Dependent Area (SDA) before JCS -- 7 The...