Food Quality Changes and Implications: Evidence from the Rice Value Chain of Bangladesh

Bart Minten (), K.A.S. Murshid and Thomas Reardon

World Development, 2013, vol. 42, issue C, 100-113

Abstract: In Dhaka, the share of the less expensive coarse rice is shown to be rapidly decreasing in rice markets and it thus seems that the role of rice as only a cheap staple food is being redefined. The increasing demand for the more expensive varieties is seemingly associated with a more important off-farm food sector—in particular, milling, retailing, and branding—as well as a transformed milling industry. We further find that the labor rewards for growing different rice varieties are not significantly different and that farmers do not benefit directly from consumers’ increased willingness to pay for rice.

Keywords: Bangladesh; rice; markets; value chains; Asia; quality; milling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.06.015

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