Impediments to Adoption or On-Farm Quality Assurance

A.I. Fitzgerald, C.E. Storer and M.J.M. Bent

No 346537, 12th Congress, Durban, South Africa, July 18-24, 1999 from International Farm Management Association

Abstract: There is an increasing demand for quality assurance (QA) in food supplied hy farmers. In response, farmer organisations have been developing on-farm quality assurance schemes such as Cattlecarefor cattle (1995) andFlockcare for sheep (1997). However the adoption of these schemes has been slow. Research in 1998 investigated the impediments to adoption. Because Flockcare was new and relatively unknown, the research was based on in-depth interviews about Cattlecare. Impediments to Cattlecare adoption included the need for extra record keeping, additional costs, adversarial industry relationships, a lack of conviction that QA was consumer driven, no obvious benefits to farmers, no sense of urgency, and no obvious trigger for action.

Keywords: Farm; Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.346537

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