Organic Vegetable Value Chain as an Alternative to Income Equality and Poverty Alleviation: Cross-Country Evidence Asaduddin Abdullah1,a), Makiko Deguchi2, Tan Chin Xiang3, Rabiatul Adwiyah1, and Alika Samira N4
1Doctoral Programs, School of Business, IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia
2Department of Agricultural Economics, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
3School of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
5Bachelor Programs, School of Business, IPB University, Bogor, Indonesia
Value chain in Agriculture is receiving much attention as a market-based policy instrument that can potentially address multiple of these constraints simultaneously with the role in income equality and reduce poverty among the chains. The main objectives of this paper are to investigate using cross country evidence on the existing organic vegetable supply chain through value stream analysis and to identify different stakeholders and their activities, and also to illustrate various cost and price movement towards different stages of the supply chain. For this study we applied two approaches to data collection, first from direct investigation in Indonesia using structured in-depth interviews and data from various sampled countries obtained from published articles or government level agriculture data. The results show that the Indonesian organic growers^ situation with the producers has no control over the vegetable supply chain, product pricing- rather they are strongly influenced by market syndicates. In order to make the problems of the existing supply chain network more understandable, different analysis is conducted in this paper. Finally, a new initiative is proposed to the vegetable supply chain as an alternative to income equality among the chains.
