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Title:Market integration: the case of dry season vegetables in Nigeria
Author:Dittoh, Saa
Book title:Issues in African rural development 2
Year:1994
Pages:89-101
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:prices
vegetables
marketing
Abstract:The prevailing high prices of vegetables in Nigeria's urban retail markets and the low prices at the farmgate level result from poor marketing infrastructure and services as well as insufficient policy-oriented marketing research. This study examines indices of marketing inefficiency using the market integration approach and offers some solutions. Weekly price data for pepper and tomatoes were collected from eight locations - four producing areas, two producing/consuming areas and two consuming areas - in Kaduna, Niger, Kwara and Oyo States in 1992, and a Ravallion-type model was used to analyse market integration between pairs of markets. The results indicate that there is little integration of pepper and tomato markets in the study area as a whole, and then only at a very low level. The results also indicate that good access roads are important for markets to be integrated, but the distance between markets is not, and that vegetable marketing decisions are affected by microlevel social, political and economic factors. It is concluded that a major determinant of market integration in the study area is information flows between producing and consuming areas. Since these are presently unsatisfactory, the federal and State governments should give attention to regular collation and dissemination of food-crop marketing information. Bibliogr., sum. in English (p. 89) and French (p. 206-207).
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