From Plantations to Smallholder Production: The Role of Policy in the Reorganization of the Sri Lankan Tea Sector

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1759-1772

  Herath, Deepananda ^a   Weersink, Alfons ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

price intervention; Sri Lankan tea; transaction costs; vertical coordination

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRICE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CROP PRODUCTION; HARVESTING; PLANTATION; REGULATORY APPROACH; SMALLHOLDER; STATE ROLE; TEA; TRANSACTION COST;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 70350074102     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.08.028     Document Type: Article

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