The evolution of the market for maize in Tanzania

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Title:	The evolution of the market for maize in Tanzania
Author:	Anonymous
Year:	1988
Periodical:	Tanzanian Economic Trends
Volume:	1
Issue:	3
Pages:	25-33
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	market maize
Abstract:	In recent years government policy towards the food distribution system in Tanzania has moved towards the encouragement of a sophisticated multichannel system of trading, involving the National Milling Corporation (NMC), cooperatives and an open market system. In order to increase understanding of the way this system is evolving, open market trading as it has developed in recent years is described, based on research by Henry Gordon and Paul de Greve. Information is provided on open market maize flows, regional maize flow patterns, and maize prices. Interviews with traders at the largest wholesale grain market in Tanzania, Manzese market, which supplies Dar es Salaam, indicates that entry to trade is open. It is significant that traders do not own transport or storage facilities, and lack of urban or intermediate storage must be considered a major constraint on the open market grain trade.