Purpose: This paper seeks to examine the export competitiveness and concentration level of the 15 top sugar exporting countries over the last 18 years (2001–2018) with special reference to India. Design/methodology/approach: First, the paper utilizes a review based approach and explains the...

Purpose: Restructuring swine and pork value chain plays important role in agriculture reformation of Vietnam, the top global pork-lover and swine producer worldwide. This study aims at investigating the modernization of its entire swine-to-pork value chain. Design/methodology/approach: This...

Purpose: Understanding parboiled rice consumption trends by households is important because parboiled rice provides economic benefits as well as health benefits compared to non-parboiled ordinary milled rice. Thus, the objective of this study is to examine the patterns and determinants of...

Purpose: Imports of cut roses increased after Norway implemented a preferential tariff scheme for the least developed countries in 2002. When the scheme was extended to more countries in 2008 – among them Kenya – imports exploded. This article studies the subsequent changes in supply...

Purpose: This article investigates the relationship between farm management skills, entrepreneurial bricolage and market orientation in smallholder farms. Design/methodology/approach: The study used quantitative approaches to survey 378 smallholder farms in Uganda. Data were analysed using...

Purpose: This study is to propose a procedure to support decisions on which enablers should be employed to minimize the impact of barriers to implementing mass customization strategies in food companies. Design/methodology/approach: Through interpretive structural modeling, the authors analyzed...

Purpose: The paper examines the nexus between agricultural exports and the performance of agricultural firms in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: The dynamic linkage is tested by using system GMM models and the period ranges from 2002 to 2016. Findings: The results indicate that...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the input- and output-specific technical inefficiency of Vietnamese prawn-rice rotational crops (PRRC) and to identify the impacts of the socio-economic characteristics of farmers and farms on these technical inefficiencies....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the agribusinesses of corn production in Mexico is analyzed, taking into special consideration the policy of encouragement to small producers, productive restructuring and...

Purpose: Rice is the primary staple crop in South Asia and is cultivated mainly on lowland ecosystems usually fed by the monsoon. With increasing climatic volatility, exclusively rain-fed rice paddies have experienced a triple threat in droughts, floods and salinity. This study investigates the...