Produção e Comercialização de Culturas Alimentares: Que Expectativas para o Presente Ano? O Ponto de Vista dos Comerciantes Rurais de Pequena Escala no Norte e Centro de Moçambique. "Production and Marketing Outlook for Food Crops for the Current Season: Viewpoint From Small-scale Traders in Central and Northern Mozambique."
Abstract:
This flash edition brings some results on assessment of rural small-scale traders’ expectations and other relevant information about the current agricultural season harvest and trade. It was found that: 1) most of the traders in the Central and Northern regions expect lower maize harvest than in the same period of last year; 2) for cassava, traders in the Northern region expect higher harvests, while the Central region traders expect lower harvests than the last year; 3) the prices in the period of the survey were lower than in the same period last year; 4) the lower farm-gate prices, associated with inflation in general prices, had reduced the financial power of the farmers.
Keywords:food security; food policy; Mozambique (search for similar items in EconPapers) JEL-codes:Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Date: 2003