Reproduced by the kind permission of the Zambian Farmer.
For a more detailed discussion of marketing costs, see A. guide to marketing costs and how to calculate them by Andrew W. Shepherd, Marketing and Rural Finance Service (AGSM), FAO, Rome, 1993.
The material in this chapter owes much to Maize marketing costs and margins, No. 4 in a series of Market Liberalization Impact Studies, Ministry of Agriculture, Lusaka, 1995.
Based on a cartoon which first appeared in the Zambian Farmer.
See Horticultural marketing — a resource and training manual for extension officers, AGS Bulletin No. 76, FAO, Rome, 1989.
See also endnote 2 above.
