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Title: | The evacuation of groundnuts in Nigeria: a linear programming approach |
Author: | Osayimwese, Iz |
Year: | 1973 |
Periodical: | The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 95-103 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | groundnuts exports |
Abstract: | In 1970 NEDECO published their 'Development of the Ports of Nigeria 1970-1990', and for the first time there was a specific reference to transport optimization in Nigeria. An optimization model was specified and the procedure was carried out in a macro-economic context. Purpose of the present paper is to present; the result of a study of the application of an optimization modal to the transportation of groundnuts in Nigeria. The author uses a framework which is basically different from that of NEDECO but beliefs that the two frameworks are to be considered as complementary to each other. After an introduction follows in section 2 a discussion of the relative importance of groundnut production in Nigeria, and attention is drawn to a micro-economic approach to the study of groundnut evacuation. Section 3 considers the model developed by the author and its relation to the NEDECO modal. Section 4:: Data and some empirical results. Section 5: Concluding remarks, Notes, tables, appendices. See also Nig. Jl. EC. & Soc. St., 16 (1974). 2, p. 339-341: A comment by Alan Hay. |