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| Shawa, Julius J.; Haantuba, Hyde H.; Belemu, A.; Ngulube, E.; Banda, A.K.; Govereh, Jones; Jayne, Thomas S.; Nijhoff, Jan J.; Zulu, Ballard. |
| The debate on fertilizer reform process in Zambia has two contrasting views. Some stakeholders continue to be convinced that the private sector is unable to adequately serve the needs of smallholder farmers, especially in the more remote parts of the country. Only 20 per cent of smallholder farmers used fertilizer in 1999/00. There are serious concerns over private traders’ willingness to deliver inputs on credit for low-resource farmers. According to this view, government fertilizer and credit distribution are indispensable for promoting smallholder agricultural productivity growth. Others believe that the fertilizer market should be restructured even more fully to remove the constraints on the private sector and reduce the drain on the public treasury.... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Fertilizer profitability; Agribusiness; Marketing; Q18. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54459 |
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| Donovan, Cynthia; Damaseke, M.; Govereh, Jones; Simumba, D.. |
| The main question which this research originally sought to answer was whether or not inorganic fertilizers are generally profitable used alone on maize, or with pesticides on cotton, for small farmers in Zambia. Rather than give a definitive answer for each Zambian farmer, the authors developed a framework for analysis and applied that framework to locations with sufficient information. Using simple value/cost ratios, researchers estimated the potential profit of fertilizer for those sites. Then, using the distributions of response rates of the crops (incremental yields) found in the trials and output prices based on regional price series, the probabilities are estimated for VCRs, using a minimum of VCR of 2.0 for profitability. The results for selected... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Maize; Cotton; Zambia; Fertilizer profitability; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54460 |
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