How to make rice value chains buyer-driven

Rice concerns thousands, if not
millions, of people in addition to rice farmers. On the pre-production side
there are the producers and manufacturers of inputs (seeds, fertilizers,
pesticides) and machinery and the traders who sell them.



On the postproduction side, there
are processors, traders, wholesalers, retailers and consumers.



Matty Demont is an agricultural
economist based at the