About This Book

Agribusiness competitiveness is the enduring and intertwining issue to transform subsistence agriculture into modern and competitive with structural transformation. This policy brief on agribusiness competitiveness has been developed to analyze and unleash the constraints, challenges and opportunities of magribusiness and suggest some major policy interventions to improve the competitive agribusiness of the smallholder agriculture for structural transformation in the South Asian region using secondary information and literature review. Agribusiness competitiveness can be improved by creating enabling policy environment; technical skill and entrepreneurship development; easing access to inputs including improved seeds and financial resources; adoption of innovative technologies; mechanization; efficient & inclusive value chain development; product-market linkage; and competitiveness of the agribusiness products in terms of price, quality, quantity, and stability.

Published: August 25, 2025