Reardon, Thomas Anthony; Minten, Bart; Chen, Kevin Z.; … - 2013
This paper reports the survey findings that rice value chains are transforming in Bangladesh and India. The main … elements of the transformation are as follows: First, rice value chains in both countries have begun to "geographically … lengthen" and "intermediationally shorten." Second, farmers capture about 60% of the final urban retail price of rice; this can …