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Proportional Transaction Costs in Rice Marketing: Estimation and Distribution by Institutional Arrangement

International Journal of Community Development

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Title Proportional Transaction Costs in Rice Marketing: Estimation and Distribution by Institutional Arrangement
 
Creator Canwat, Vincent
 
Subject Marketing; Proportional Transaction Cost; Estimation; Distribution
 
Description Agricultural commercialisation is emerging as an important option for achieving agricultural development and reducing poverty in developing countries. However, this option faces a number of barriers, including high fixed and proportional transaction costs. Proportional transaction cost lowers the efficiency of agricultural marketing system, but its measurement remained a challenge and its distribution under different institutional arrangement is not widely explored. Using a transport model, estimated based on data collected from Northern Uganda, proportional transaction cost was estimated and its distribution was also assessed. The estimation found that low proportional transaction costs are incurred by rice producers in Northern Uganda, mainly because of subsidisation of transport cost by rice millers. A lower proportional transaction costs are also incurred under contract institutional arrangement than under spot market and personalised arrangement. These observations reveal useful information about rice milling as one of the points along the rice value chains that policy intervention for improving market access of rice producers can be made, and confirm the importance of contract farming in reducing transaction cost and enhancing access to market.
 
Publisher World Scholars
 
Contributor Netherland Government
 
Date 2014-06-16
 
Type Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://wscholars.com/index.php/ijcd/article/view/339
10.11634/233028791402339
 
Source International Journal of Community Development; Vol 2, No 1 (2014); 1-12
 
Language en
 
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