Agricultural Supply Chain Coordination under Weather-Related Uncertain Yield

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

In the revised verison of the paper most of weaknesess has been removed according to the reviewer's comments. In my opinion from the menagerial point of view the supplemented numerical analysis is still not enough argument to redesgin revenue-sharing contract to achieve agricultural supply chain coordination, but due to the sufficient formal quality as well as logical coherence the paper can be published in the present form.   

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Reviewer 2 Report

Even though the numerical analysis has improved considerably compared to previous versions, my main concern is still that it is not sufficient to demonstrate that the redesigned revenue sharing contract can coordinate the agricultural supply chain in the presence of uncertain yield and demand. I think an additional effort is still necessary. Additionally, I think that Figures 3 and 4 do not indicate “that the revised revenue-sharing contract can achieve profit improvement if the mean rainfall remains sufficiently high”. I am sure the statement is correct, but it is not easy to see.

I would also suggest improving the structure and readability of the literature review. I would suggest being clearer on what the authors want to convey.

The presentation of Sections 3, 4 and 5 needs to be improved. It is not clear what the authors want to demonstrate. I would suggest including all calculations and more straightforward explanations on them —even if it is in an appendix.

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Reviewer 3 Report

The authors have improved an already well-written manuscript. My only concern has still to do with sub-section 2.1 which has not been enriched. Although this is not critical for the scientific value of the paper, it would be important for its thoroughness.

Author Response

Thanks for your comments.

Sub-seciton 2.1 is enriched as shown in lines 113-125:

“2.1 Supply chain yield uncertainty

Most existing literature takes a multiplicative form of uncertain yield. He and Zhao [11] and Adhikari [2] describe the realized production yield as a stochastic proportion of the planned production quantity to depict the supply randomness in the production process. Giri and Bardhan [13] assume that the supplier and manufacturers’ actual produced quantities are random proportions of the planned production quantity and order quantity, respectively. Güler and Keski˙n [14] assume that the retailer can use a stochastic proportion to the delivered quantity from the supplier due to the supply uncertainty resulting from quality, transportation, or theft issues. Anderson [1] ex-presses the actual yield as the random proportion of nitrogen fertilizer input and studies its influence on yield. These studies focus on yield randomness in the production and transportation process. They assume that the available yield depends on the planned production amount or input quantity, but they have the same underlying structure.”

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Most of the comments and concerns have been satisfactorily addressed. I think the paper has been sufficiently improved and is ready for publication.