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Agribusiness in South Asia / Soujanya Chodavarapu.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Chodavarapu, Soujanya.
- Series:
- Other papers
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agribusiness.
- Agricultural Trade.
- Agriculture.
- Competitiveness and Competition Policy.
- Export Competitiveness.
- Financial and Private Sector Development.
- Infrastructure Services For Private Sector Development.
- Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Support.
- Private Sector Development.
- Productivity.
- Regulation and Competition Policy.
- Trade Policy.
- Value Chains.
- Local Subjects:
- Agribusiness.
- Agricultural Trade.
- Agriculture.
- Competitiveness and Competition Policy.
- Export Competitiveness.
- Financial and Private Sector Development.
- Infrastructure Services For Private Sector Development.
- Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Support.
- Private Sector Development.
- Productivity.
- Regulation and Competition Policy.
- Trade Policy.
- Value Chains.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Agribusiness (including agriculture) accounts for almost one third of South Asia's GDP and has the potential to almost double over the next fifteen years (reaching 1.5 trillion US dollars by 2030). This increase will be driven by rapid growth in population, incomes and urbanization, as well as accelerated transformation of the sector towards higher value products and downstream activities. The highest growth will come from processed food and related services, such as food retail and restaurants which will create millions of productive jobs outside agriculture and positive backward linkages for farmers. Removing restrictions on trade, markets and prices would support this transformation; reforms in these areas are already showing promising effects. In addition, governments should continue to support smaller and poorer farmers, who may not benefit from this transformation. More targeted and pro-active support should be provided to raise productivity, rather than blanket subsidies and price controls that encourage the status quo and threaten the sustainability of the sector in the face of climate change (for example, large untargeted water subsidies).
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