Most Malawian maize and soybean farmers sell below official minimum farmgate prices

• Published in: IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc
• Main Authors: Baulch, Bob, Ochieng, Dennis O
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 01.01.2020
• Subjects: Soybeans

This note analyzes the prices received by 1,048 maize and 1,265 soybean farmers in Malawi during the main harvest marketing season of 2020. Between April and July, whenever they sold maize or soybeans, farmers were asked to report the prices they received by calling or texting a toll-free number man...