This research focuses on the performance in the Magoye ripper in maize and cotton production in Eastern and Southern …, resulting in net profits per hectare of ZK575,800 in Eastern Province and ZK93,800 in Southern Province; In cotton, the input …

cash crops including cotton, the proposed creation of a Cotton Board, and the emergence in 2003 of District Council levies … as a point of conflict between local governments and cotton companies. The purpose of the paper is to provide guidance to …

fertilizer profitable in Zambia for maize and cotton in the smallholder sector?” This study identifies the key components … fertilizer use on maize and cotton. Several cases are selected and the results are evaluated. Private profitability for the …

Cotton is an unquestioned success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy. After privatization in late 1994, seed … cotton production rose from 32,000 metric tons (mt) to about 180,000 mt a decade later (three-year averages centered on 1994 …

within the framework of the Cotton Act, facilitated by a non-partisan government role, will be crucial to maintain good …

1. Zambia has paid among the best nominal seed cotton prices to farmers in SSA since 1995. 2. By a more refined measure … Zimbabwe and Mozambique in our sample 3. The recently announced reference price for 2008 of ZKW 1,200/kg of seed cotton was …’s cotton sector are shared equitably? …

export opportunities from production of cotton. 2. Unregulated and poorly coordinated markets for cotton, production inputs … and credit have too often failed to deliver sustainable production finance to farmers for cotton production resulting in a … has been relatively successful in dealing with the input-credit needs of cotton farmers for periods of time but the system …