Policy brie f 2021, No.03 Contract Farming Arrangements among Thailand’s Smallholder Farmers: Linking Small- Scale Farmers to Strengthen Production and Market Opportunities Key policy messages The government can promote contract farming by acting as a coordinating agency between firms and farmers, providing infrastructure, supporting R&D and the transfer of knowledge and technology, and by strengt. [...] Local extension officers can act as intermediaries to coordinate farmers and buyers to provide information that farmers need to know in respect of CF, to disseminate production information to companies, to organise meetings for discussions, negotiations, contract signing, dispute resolution, and for monitoring the contract. [...] The Key Findings From the interviews with small-scale farmers, the major benefits of CF for them revolved around access to reliable markets: CF can particularly help to integrate small-scale farmers within modern supply chains and provide opportunities to reach wider destinations, including the modern trade and export markets. [...] Furthermore, in the case of organic rice, social capital in the community is strengthened through activities supported by the contractors, for instance, in composting, and the establishment of saving funds. [...] Buyers’ willingness and commitment to enhance activities of farmers and buyers - providing guidance farmers’ capability to improve yield or production that farmers need to support CF implementation, quality and to strengthen communities to improve and to disseminate production information of use livelihoods to companies.
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