1 Seed Cotton Market Structure and Cotton Sector Performance : Many Lessons but No Fixed Prescriptions
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INTRODUCTION: The African continent offers a wide diversity of approaches to cotton sector organization. This has led to recurrent debates about the relative strengths and weaknesses of different forms of organization. Experience has shown that the structure of the markets in which farmers sell their seed cotton has a strong influence on how other activities in the sector are organized (e.g., input supply, credit, export marketing) and how well the entire sector performs. Many factors can differentiate seed cotton markets, but the most important are:
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