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| Title: |
Are Informal Market Linkages in Developing Countries Transaction Cost Sensitive? Evidence from Procurement of Smallholders` Produce by Brokers in Kenya |
| Author: |
I.M. Kariuki G.A. Obare E.A. Birachi |
| Appeared in: |
Journal of applied sciences |
| Paging: | Volume 6 (2006) nr. 4 pages 838-842 |
| Year: |
2006 |
| Contents: |
This research uses data from a 2001 household survey conducted in Mwea Tebere Central Kenya to evaluate transaction cost related factors governing the likelihood of using informal linkages in French bean marketing. A logit model is used to determine the likelihood of small farmers using brokers conditional upon locality, infrastructural, market and investment characteristics. Results show that brokers value prior investment in irrigation equipment, farms located near source of irrigation waters, farms situated near villages and low product prices. This lends credence to the predatory behaviour of brokers who exploit social village-ties, fixity of horticultural equipment and coordination and infrastructural inefficiencies in horticultural marketing to perpetuate themselves in horticultural business in the study area and related regions in Kenya. |
| Publisher: |
Asian Network for Scientific Information, Pakistan (provided by DOAJ) |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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