HOME DELIVERY SERVICES :
In today’s world, all family members are working members and office goers. They find less time to buy groceries, vegetables and prepare food on daily business. Many of them rely on restaurants, Tiffin providers, or office/college canteens. People from villages come to cities for their further studies and they find difficult to cook food on daily basis in hostels. Also, they need various choices on food and restaurant selection and find it difficult to search every other restaurant, compare food prices/menu items and order. Home delivery service can bridge the gap for this. It can be single step solution where customers can have choices from different restaurants and home cooks for their daily meals. They can
order and get their meals deliver to their offices & homes.
Service and Its Application:
Tenderfreshchicken.com This portal will provide customers flexibility in choosing from various Meat Stores & restaurants. They can compare prices, menu items, reviews of Stores & restaurants and their food. They can pay online and order such that the meals can be delivered to their door-step. For restaurant owners and home cooks, this will give an added advantage where large base of customers can view their offerings. As an added benefit, they can choose this service provider’s delivery facility so that delivery person picks Meat/meal from Stores/restaurant/home cooks and deliver to customers. Customers can also view and review the restaurants and their offering for their decision on selecting restaurants.
CONTRACT FARMING:
Contract farming is an arrangement where a buyer and a farmer agree on how to produce and sell a specific farm product. The farmer agrees to provide an agreed-upon amount of the product, meeting the quality standards set by the buyer and delivering it at an agreed-upon time. In return, the buyer commits to purchasing the product and may also provide support in the form of farm inputs, land preparation, and technical advice to help with production.
Advantages
Contract farming is looking towards the benefits both for the farm-producers as well as to the agro-processing firms. Producer/farmer
- Makes small scale farming competitive – small farmers can access technology, credit, marketing channels and information while lowering transaction costs
- Assured market for their produce at their doorsteps, reducing marketing and transaction costs
- It reduces the risk of production, price and marketing costs.
- Contract farming can open up new markets which would otherwise be unavailable to small farmers.
- It also ensures higher production of better quality, financial support in cash and /or kind and technical guidance to the farmers.
- In case of agri-processing level, it ensures consistent supply of agricultural produce with quality, at right time and lesser cost.
Agri-based firms
- Optimally utilize their installed capacity, infrastructure and manpower, and respond to food safety and quality concerns of the consumers.
- Make direct private investment in agricultural activities.
- The price fixation is done by the negotiation between the producers and firms.
- The farmers enter into contract production with an assured price under term and conditions.
Policy support
Agricultural marketing is regulated by the States’ Agricultural Produce Marketing Regulation (APMR) Acts. In order to regulate and develop practice of contract farming, Government has been actively advocating to the States/ Union Territories (UTs) to reform their agri marketing laws to provide a system of registration of contract farming sponsors, recording of their agreements and proper dispute settlement mechanism for orderly promotion of contract farming in the country. So far, 21 States (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab (separate Act), Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana, Tripura and Uttarakhand) have amended their Agricultural Produce Marketing Regulation (APMR) Acts to provide for contract farming and of them, only 13 States (Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Telangana) have notified the rules to implement the provision.