contract farming
Pre-agreed crop growing
Contract farming is an agricultural arrangement where a farmer agrees to grow crops or raise livestock for a buyer—typically a large company—under predetermined terms specifying price, quantity, and quality standards.
The buyer often provides seeds, fertilizer, or technical guidance; the farmer provides land and labor.
Contract farming for poultry has transformed rural economies in the region.
The practice offers farmers guaranteed markets but can create dependency on single buyers.
- price fixingIllegal coordinated rate-setting
- smallholderFarmer of limited land
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- crop rotationAlternating field plantings yearly
- growing seasonTime crops can mature
profit-sharing · rural development · traceability systems · enforceability · subsidies · monopsony · sharecropping · dispute resolution · income stability · fair trade · food security · monoculture · distribution channels · risk mitigation · middleman · tenant · land lease · community engagement
- agribusinessagribusiness, farm, farms, corporate farms, factory farms
- farming systemssharecropping, family farm, plantation, ranch, ranching
- produce tradewholesale, wholesaler, distributor, broker, buyer
- farm agreementsfarm lease, sharecropping, farm management, sharecrop, land lease
- agriculturefarms, crops, farm, farmers, crop yields
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, crop
contract farmingsubsistence farming
Growing food for household
corporate farming · cooperative farming · collective farming · traditional farming · homesteading