المنتدى العالمي المعني بالأمن الغذائي والتغذية

Although the government supports cotton farmers by regulating prices, cotton producers in Mozambique receive prices that are lower than international reference prices. Findings from a recent study conducted by the Monitoring African Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) project show that the following measures would improve prices for producers:

• fostering competition along the entire cotton value chain, especially among processing companies (ginners);
• making processing more efficient to increase both the quantity and quality of outputs; 
• revising the domestic price fixing system to align producers’ prices with prices in international markets; and
• strengthening the market power of producers, relative to ginners, to improve transparency and equity in cotton market transactions.