A test of whether millet acreage in Niger is determined by official or private market prices

Brorsen, B W and Adesina, A A (1990) A test of whether millet acreage in Niger is determined by official or private market prices. Agricultural Economics, 04 (3-4). pp. 287-296. ISSN 01695150

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Abstract

Niger has two separate marketing channels for grain: one is the official system operated by the government; the other is a parallel channel of private traders. Researchers or policy-makers wanting to study effects of price policies on producers are faced with two sets of prices. This paper seeks to answer the question, which prices matter? Non-nested hypothesis tests are conducted for millet-acreage response equations. The results show that prices from the larger private market are the prices that matter.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Others
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Niger, Millet, Market prices
Subjects:	Mandate crops > Millets
Depositing User:	Mr Ramesh K
Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2016 04:10
Last Modified:	21 Sep 2016 04:10
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/9680
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0169-5150(90)90006-M
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	UNSPECIFIED
Acknowledgement:	The authors wish to than Patrick Jomini, B.I. Shapiro and W.H.M. Morris for helpful comments and for help in collecting data.
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