Since the early 1990s, contract farming as a market institution in the poultry industry in Bangladesh has evolved along with the expansion of commercial poultry farming. Apart from classical contract farming within vertically integrated enterprises, there are also formal and informal contract...

Free entry and exit from an industry is one of the indicators of competitive behaviour of that industry. It is alleged that exit from Bangladesh's poultry industry is high. Based on a survey of exited firms, nature and causes of exit were analysed and their implications for policy for the...