Aligning policies to boost rice production and exports in Mali
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Year: 2013
Rice farmers in Mali receive prices that are lower than international reference prices. MAFAP analysis suggests that the following measures would improve production incentives for producers:
• ensuring that short-term policies aimed at keeping prices affordable for consumers do not contradict long-term policies aimed at boosting production;
• defining policy objectives more clearly and communicating them to producers and consumers in a transparent way;
• improving infrastructure to lower transport costs, especially between the farm-gate and wholesale markets;
• eliminating illicit costs; and
• providing regular and transparent price information to consumers and producers.
Available in:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/aq375e/aq375e.pdf
Publication type: Policy brief
Country coverage: Mali
Region: Africa