ILRI's Markets theme has published a research report titled Alternative institutional arrangements for contract farming in poultry production in Bangladesh and their impacts on equity. The study identified forms of market institutions that would allow smallholder poultry producers in Bangladesh to engage in commercial production of broilers and eggs so as to raise household incomes under rapidly differentiating livestock markets.
Citation
Jabbar MA, Rahman MH, Talukder RK and Raha SK. 2007. Alternative institutional arrangements for contract farming in poultry production in Bangladesh and their impacts on equity. ILRI Research Report 7. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya. 98 pp.