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Title: | Trading Responses to Food Market Liberalization in Tanzania |
Authors: | Santorum, Anita Tibaijuka, Anna |
Year: | 1992 |
Periodical: | Food Policy (ISSN 0306-9192) |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 6 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 431-442 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | market economy trade maize marketing Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Politics and Government |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/0306-9192(92)90075-9 |
Abstract: | This article presents the results of a survey of trader behaviour in Tanzania in early 1990. Trading has been the only marketing function in Tanzania to shift rapidly and efficiently from parastatal institutions to private institutions. Private traders have made a major contribution to the movement of maize from producing areas (including, to some extent, remote surplus areas) to urban consumer centres and to consumer price stabilization. Traders, however, do not keep interseasonal stocks and do not own means of transport. There are very few or no barriers to entering the maize market, but there is evidence of barriers to expansion above certain business levels. Larger traders may benefit from economies of scale in the form of lower transport costs and lower purchasing prices. The article identifies the following as primary factors in accelerating the development of private trading: the development of marketplaces and storage structures, access to credit facilities for both traders and transporters, and long-term infrastructural policies to reduce transport costs. Notes, ref., sum. |