Spatial price transmission and market integration in Senegal's groundnut market
Senegalese agriculture is unusually specialized in just three products: groundnuts, rice, and millet. Groundnuts have remained Senegal's premier export crop, rice remains the principle importable food, and millet is the principal food crop (Masters 2007). Senegal has been considered one of the most...
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| author | Badiane, Ousmane Ulimwengu, John M. Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie |
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| description | Senegalese agriculture is unusually specialized in just three products: groundnuts, rice, and millet. Groundnuts have remained Senegal's premier export crop, rice remains the principle importable food, and millet is the principal food crop (Masters 2007). Senegal has been considered one of the most highly controlled markets in West Africa (Masters 2007). Historically, the Senegalese government has maintained a monopoly both on the purchase of groundnuts and on processing them into oil. At the beginning of the season, the government would set one producer price for groundnuts throughout the country. Accepting this pan-territorial price, farmers were required to sell their groundnuts to official agencies. Since the cost of transporting the groundnuts from the collection points near the villages to the mill was borne by the government or its parastatal groundnut agency (la Société Nationale de Commercialisation des Oléagineux du Sénégal [SONACOS]), every farmer received the same price, regardless of how far the farm was from the groundnut mill (Gray 2002). |
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| spelling | CGSpace1549272025-11-06T07:18:11Z Spatial price transmission and market integration in Senegal's groundnut market Badiane, Ousmane Ulimwengu, John M. Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie groundnuts price policies privatization Senegalese agriculture is unusually specialized in just three products: groundnuts, rice, and millet. Groundnuts have remained Senegal's premier export crop, rice remains the principle importable food, and millet is the principal food crop (Masters 2007). Senegal has been considered one of the most highly controlled markets in West Africa (Masters 2007). Historically, the Senegalese government has maintained a monopoly both on the purchase of groundnuts and on processing them into oil. At the beginning of the season, the government would set one producer price for groundnuts throughout the country. Accepting this pan-territorial price, farmers were required to sell their groundnuts to official agencies. Since the cost of transporting the groundnuts from the collection points near the villages to the mill was borne by the government or its parastatal groundnut agency (la Société Nationale de Commercialisation des Oléagineux du Sénégal [SONACOS]), every farmer received the same price, regardless of how far the farm was from the groundnut mill (Gray 2002). 2010 2024-10-01T14:04:52Z 2024-10-01T14:04:52Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154927 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Badiane, Ousmane; Ulimwengu, John M.; Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie. 2010. Spatial price transmission and market integration in Senegal's groundnut market. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1014. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154927 |
| spellingShingle | groundnuts price policies privatization Badiane, Ousmane Ulimwengu, John M. Wouterse, Fleur Stephanie Spatial price transmission and market integration in Senegal's groundnut market |
| title | Spatial price transmission and market integration in Senegal's groundnut market |
| title_full | Spatial price transmission and market integration in Senegal's groundnut market |
| title_fullStr | Spatial price transmission and market integration in Senegal's groundnut market |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spatial price transmission and market integration in Senegal's groundnut market |
| title_short | Spatial price transmission and market integration in Senegal's groundnut market |
| title_sort | spatial price transmission and market integration in senegal s groundnut market |
| topic | groundnuts price policies privatization |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154927 |
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