Dairy farm survey: contracting and unfair trading practices in the food supply chain.

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This contract has the objective of carrying out a survey among dairy farmers to obtain data allowing JRC-IPTS to perform quantitative analysis on the effects of contracting and unfair trading practices UTPs on farm performance. The overall objectives of the contract are: To collect raw data: 1. on the production information and structure of dairy farmers; 2. on characteristics of and contract details with the main dairy purchaser; 3. on contractual relations with the main milk purchaser that allows to measure UTPs; 4. about the structure of the market allowing measurement of bargaining power in the food chain; 5. on dairy farmers' cooperation. To collect basic information about the dairy processing industry collected from secondary sources.