Marketing with and without marketing boards: cocoa, cotton and grain marketing in Nigeria

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Title:	Marketing with and without marketing boards: cocoa, cotton and grain marketing in Nigeria
Authors:	Clough, Paul Williams, G.
Year:	1983
Pages:	58
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Leiden
Publisher:	African studies centre
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	marketing boards agricultural marketing
Abstract:	Marketing boards in Nigeria found their justification in the view that the peasantry was in thrall to middlemen and moneylenders. Hence the need for the state to intervene to promote 'orderly marketing'. This view maintains a strong appeal notwithstanding all the evidence to the contrary. The authors examine the origins and working of the marketing boards, firstly with respect to their export monopolies and secondly with respect to the internal marketing system of crops within Nigeria. In contrast with the state-regulated system for purchasing cotton, or cocoa, which imposes oligopolistic marketing on producers, the private system for marketing grain, most particularly between rural areas, is much more 'competitive', as the authors illustrate through a case study of the marketing of guinea corn (sorghum) in central Hausaland in the period 1977-1979.