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 …

1. Zambia has paid among the best nominal seed cotton prices to farmers in SSA since 1995. 2. By a more refined measure … (share of FOT), during 1995-1999, Zambia paid prices comparable to those in Tanzania (a very competitive sector), and … substantially higher than in Mozambique and WCA. However, from 2000-2005, Zambia's pricing performance fell, and exceeded only …

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 … varied from State monopolies to private markets with several large firms managing to achieve temporary duopolies. 4. Zambia …

farmers (and thus of cotton’s ability to reduce poverty) 2. Zambia’s relatively good performance on input credit provision …. Zambia’s concentrated structure gives it the potential to substantially increase farm productivity, and for cotton to make …1. Farm yields are one key indicator of the productivity of a cotton sector, and an important determinant of returns to …

generally profitable used alone on maize, or with pesticides on cotton, for small farmers in Zambia. Rather than give a … fertilizer profitability in Zambia. …

makers and private stakeholders in Zambia’s cotton sector, and has four main purposes: (a) To provide a detailed descriptive …This paper grows out of earlier work on cotton by the Food Security Research Project. It is directed towards policy … assess cotton’s role in smallholder livelihood strategies, and its competitiveness at the farm level with a key alternative …

Cotton is an unquestioned success of Zambia’s turn towards a market economy. Yet the entry over the past two years of … “rules of the game” are urgently needed to protect Zambia’s remarkable cotton success story. Other countries in southern and … eastern Africa have seen dramatic declines in input credit and extension to farmers, and in cotton quality, when competition …