O papel do governo na comercialização agrícola e seu impacto na redução da pobreza em Moçambique: o caso de milho

Abstract

This paper seeks to analyze the government's role in the agricultural marketing of products in general, and corn in particular in the North of the country, during the period between 1986 and 2006. It evaluates the hypothesis that government intervention in corn marketing increases farmers' income and reduces transaction costs. In the period considered, there is clearly an improvement in the commercialization rates, analyzing the trend through graphic illustration, but with regard to the impact of government intervention on commercialization and poverty reduction, as well as on the performance of our economy, through in the analysis carried out, there is an increase in income resulting from the marketing of surplus production, while the lack of access roads for the flow of production results in an increase in transaction costs. As a result, the government is called upon to intervene through appropriate policies in order to support the commercialization of maize.