Increasing Access to Inputs

Kevin McKague and Muhammad Siddiquee

Chapter Chapter 6 in Making Markets More Inclusive, 2014, pp 79-98 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract For smallholder farmers in agricultural value chains, access to productivity enhancing inputs is essential in allowing them to improve the quality and quantity of their production and increase their incomes. Too often, however, poor farmers face multiple constraints—remoteness, lack of infrastructure, lack of information, and lack of market relationships. Women, who do the majority of work in dairying in Bangladesh, also face constraints of mobility and time. While strategies for value chain development organizations to increase access to inputs for smallholder farmers will vary depending on the nature of the input and the context of the farmers, many of the lessons learned by CARE in the dairy sector in Bangladesh are broadly applicable to other value chains in other countries. For the dairy farmers in Bangladesh, types of inputs fell into four broad categories: (1) feed and medicines; (2) animal health-care services; (3) artificial insemination services; and (4) financial services.

Keywords: Dairy Farmer; Artificial Insemination; Smallholder Farmer; Farm Group; Napier Grass (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137373755_6

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