production and marketing patterns in Zambia’s small- and medium-scale farm sector, examines how these patterns vary regionally … in Zambia is focused on maize, the study provides a particular emphasis on small farmers’ maize production and marketing … they spend their money. In Zambia’s case, there is reasonably accurate information on production levels and trends in a …

sources of cash revenue as well as production for home consumption (except, of course, cotton). Importantly in both seasons …. Poverty reduction policy options are severely constrained by these production and marketing patterns especially if operating …CSO/MACO nationally-representative rural surveys provide important insights on smallholder crop marketing behavior from …

This research focuses on the performance in the Magoye ripper in maize and cotton production in Eastern and Southern … Provinces during the 2004/2005 productions year. Findings include the following: In maize production, the ripper enabled higher …, resulting in net profits per hectare of ZK575,800 in Eastern Province and ZK93,800 in Southern Province; In cotton, the input …

cash crops including cotton, the proposed creation of a Cotton Board, and the emergence in 2003 of District Council levies … as a point of conflict between local governments and cotton companies. The purpose of the paper is to provide guidance to …

highly contaminated by world standards, much of it trades at a discount to Index A. 3. Zambia has been the outstanding … Dunavant and Cargill, made possible by company culture and by the concentrated structure of Zambia's industry 4. Quality (and … within the framework of the Cotton Act, facilitated by a non-partisan government role, will be crucial to maintain good …

1. Zambia has paid among the best nominal seed cotton prices to farmers in SSA since 1995. 2. By a more refined measure … (share of FOT), during 1995-1999, Zambia paid prices comparable to those in Tanzania (a very competitive sector), and … substantially higher than in Mozambique and WCA. However, from 2000-2005, Zambia's pricing performance fell, and exceeded only …

export opportunities from production of cotton. 2. Unregulated and poorly coordinated markets for cotton, production inputs … and credit have too often failed to deliver sustainable production finance to farmers for cotton production resulting in a …1. Smallholder farmers in Africa require reliable access to purchased production inputs and credit to take advantage of …

farmers (and thus of cotton’s ability to reduce poverty) 2. Zambia’s relatively good performance on input credit provision …. Zambia’s concentrated structure gives it the potential to substantially increase farm productivity, and for cotton to make …1. Farm yields are one key indicator of the productivity of a cotton sector, and an important determinant of returns to …

generally profitable used alone on maize, or with pesticides on cotton, for small farmers in Zambia. Rather than give a … fertilizer profitability in Zambia. …