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Agricultural Marketing And Price Policy In Malawi

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posted on 2024-09-06, 07:25 authored by K. Muir
Malawi has one of the highest population densities 'in Africa - 67 persons per sq-. km or only 0.9 ha. per capita of arable land, (l980) including national, parks and forest reserves. Malawi has no mineral resources and at the time of independence the country, generated insufficient revenue to support itself without British budgetary aid (45% of current, expenditure). It had a per capita monetary income of K22.00 per person (K43 per-person, including estimated subsistence production, which accounted for almost half of total GDP. The infrastructure was very poorly developed and concentrated in the southern region.

A DLM Working Paper on agricultural marketing and pricing policies in Malawi.

Funding

This research was sponsored, by the. COMMONWEALTH FUND FOR TECHNICAL CO-OPERATION who funded an ASSOCIATION OF COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITIES , Academic Exchange Fellowship -for the writer’.

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Publisher

Department of Land Management (DLM) ; University of Zimbabwe (UZ)

Citation

Muir, Kay. (1982) Agricultural Marketing And Price Policy In Malawi, DLM Working Paper No. 5. Harare, Mt. Pleasant: DLM

Series

Department of Land Management (DLM) Working Paper Series. Paper No.5/ 82.

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University of Zimbabwe

Country

Malawi.

Language

en

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