Fonctionnement et intégration des marchés agricoles au Rwanda : application au marché de la banane à cuire dans le Sud-Est de la province du Sud du Rwanda
(2013)
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- In 2000, the Government of Rwanda started a vast development program to transform Rwanda into middle income country for the horizon 2020. To realize this objective, the emphasis was put on agriculture transformation and modernization; so that it could play the role of engine of the economic growth. The main strategies adopted consist of massive use of chemical fertilizers and improved seeds, agricultural mechanization, farmers’ training in modern agricultural methods and crop regionalization according to agro-bio-climatic characteristics of agricultural regions. The banana crop is amongst the agricultural crops chains to develop. It is submitted to a transformation program in order to increase the banana production for improving producers’ income and thus contribute to poverty reduction. The transformation should result in banana plantations improvement, in particular cooking banana plantations, in order to increase marketable surplus. Therefore, the cooking banana marketing system has to assure cooking banana production marketing. In order to know if the banana production is rightly marketed, we analysed the functioning of the cooking banana market in the Southeast of the province of the South of Rwanda. The findings of the study show that there are two main marketing channels of cooking banana: rural-urban marketing channel and rural-rural marketing channel. The rural-urban marketing channel attracts mainly the cooking banana from relative market oriented cooking banana producers. The rural-rural marketing channel absorbs mainly the cooking banana from the majority of small farmers invested in subsistence agriculture. Therefore, small farmers are marginalized on cooking banana urban market. Rural markets which gather mainly the cooking banana from small producers are rarely supplying urban markets. The increase of costs of production due to the adoption of agricultural modern methods could increase the marginalisation of small farmers on cooking banana market. The findings of the study show also that there is no price information transmission between rural markets and urban markets. Rural and urban cooking banana markets are thus weakly integrated. Poor economic infrastructure like roads and lack of information on cooking banana market can explain the weak integration of markets and the failure of rural markets to supply urban markets. It should be inevitable to set up a cooking banana marketing system in order to improve the cooking banana marketing and to accompany the modernisation of the cooking banana sector.
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Niyitanga, F. (2013). Fonctionnement et intégration des marchés agricoles au Rwanda : application au marché de la banane à cuire dans le Sud-Est de la province du Sud du Rwanda. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/27822