The paper looks at: export performance and the rational of vegetable production on contract from the standpoint of the farm and the peasant household; the economics of contract farming and more particularly at gherkins, the main export crop. It asks what has happened to costs and earnings over time how profitable it has been and how the benefits have  been distributed; organisation and the institutional frame work; and concluding section examines the contract farming as a policy option for Sri Lanka.

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