maize, but also other cereals production, in order to frame appropriate policies and interventions to support farmers, in the context of PEDSA and PNISA. LIMITATIONS Our analysis did not take into account quality differential between imported maize grain and domestically produced maize grain; The public monetary transfers to farmers, in form of input subsidies, are not included at this stage of the analysis. Data were in the process of being collected by the MAFAP team in Mozambique and will allow to compute the Nominal Rates of Assistance. FURTHER INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH Both maize grain and maize meal are traded at wholesale level in Maputo although maize is ultimately consumed as maize meal. Our analysis focused on price incentives for maize grain traders and farmers. The analysis could be improved by comparing results from two scenarios: (i) computing the indicators using wholesale maize grain prices as we did in our analysi, and (ii) estimating the same indicators using wholesale maize meal prices. This could help us better understand whether the 17 percent VAT on maize grain import had differential impacts on maize grain and maize meal as it would be predicted because millers who import maize grain and process it into maize meal get rebates for their VAT payments; The focus of our analysis was on Southern Mozambique (a maize deficit region). However, Northern Mozambique a maize surplus region could be considered as a separate – – marketing segment and therefore analysis of prices incentives to farmers and wholesalers operating in this region could be undertaken. There had been limited integration between maize markets in Northern and Southern Mozambique due mainly to lack of a bridge in the Zambezi River, causing a natural barrier to maize flow from Northern to Southern Mozambique. The market integration between the two regions has been improving since August 2009 when a bridge was built in the Zambezi River. Maize markets in Northern Mozambique are better linked with markets in Southern Malawi (a major maize deficit region). BIBLIOGRAPHY Acosta, A. 2012. Measuring Spatial Transmission of White Maize Prices between South Africa and Mozambique: An Asymmetric Error Correction Model Approach. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 7(1), 1-13.
maize, but also other cereals production, in order to frame appropriate policies and interventions to support farmers, in the context of PEDSA and PNISA. LIMITATIONS Our analysis did not take into account quality differential between imported maize grain and domestically produced maize grain; The public monetary transfers to farmers, in form of input subsidies, are not included at this stage of the analysis. Data were in the process of being collected by the MAFAP team in Mozambique and will allow to compute the Nominal Rates of Assistance. FURTHER INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH Both maize grain and maize meal are traded at wholesale level in Maputo although maize is ultimately consumed as maize meal. Our analysis focused on price incentives for maize grain traders and farmers. The analysis could be improved by comparing results from two scenarios: (i) computing the indicators using wholesale maize grain prices as we did in our analysi, and (ii) estimating the same indicators using wholesale maize meal prices. This could help us better understand whether the 17 percent VAT on maize grain import had differential impacts on maize grain and maize meal as it would be predicted because millers who import maize grain and process it into maize meal get rebates for their VAT payments; The focus of our analysis was on Southern Mozambique (a maize deficit region). However, Northern Mozambique – a maize surplus region – could be considered as a separate marketing segment and therefore analysis of prices incentives to farmers and wholesalers operating in this region could be undertaken. There had been limited integration between maize markets in Northern and Southern Mozambique due mainly to lack of a bridge in the Zambezi River, causing a natural barrier to maize flow from Northern to Southern Mozambique. The market integration between the two regions has been improving since August 2009 when a bridge was built in the Zambezi River. Maize markets in Northern Mozambique are better linked with markets in Southern Malawi (a major maize deficit region). BIBLIOGRAPHY Acosta, A. 2012. Measuring Spatial Transmission of White Maize Prices between South Africa and Mozambique: An Asymmetric Error Correction Model Approach. African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 7(1), 1-13.
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