Commodity boards in Nigeria: a crisis of identity

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Title:	Commodity boards in Nigeria: a crisis of identity
Author:	Idachaba, F.S.
Year:	1983
Pages:	37
Language:	English
Series:	Marketing boards in tropical Africa
City of publisher:	Leiden
Publisher:	African Studies Centre
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	marketing boards agricultural marketing
Abstract:	The Commodity Boards Act No. 29 (1977) dissolved the State Marketing Boards and the Nigerian Produce Marketing Company and set up, in their place, seven new Commodity Boards (respectively for cocoa, groundnut, cotton, palm produce, rubber, grains, tuber and root crops) with nation-wide jurisdiction. The present paper examines the role of these commodity boards in produce marketing in Nigeria, specifically with the following questions in mind: what is the nature of current commodity marketing constraints that the commodity boards are supposed to address? How do food marketing boards differ from those in export marketing? How do these marketing constraints differ across space? What are the relative weights of production marketing roles of the boards? How does actual performance relate to statutory roles? what are the relative weights of price stabilisation and strategic reserve functions? What should public policy be towards the roles of parastatals, private sector firms and cooperatives in food marketing? Key issuesd in the proper role of commodity boards involve not only their scope of activities but also whether they should play a 'directly participating role' or a 'facilitating' one.