Market based price support program: an alternative approach to large scale food procurement and distribution system |
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Authors: | MMahmud Khan AMM Jamal |
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Institution: | aHealth Economics Programme, Center for Health and Population Research (ICDDR, B), Mohakhali,Dhaka, Bangladesh and Tulane University, Louisiana, USA;bDepartment of Management, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | In most developing countries of the world, large scale public food procurement and distribution systems (PFDS) have become too expensive for the country governments to support from their own resources. Despite high financial and administrative costs of the programs, the degree of seasonal price stabilization and price support achieved through the activities remain quite low. Using the Bangladesh PFDS as a case study, this research indicates that considerable improvements in price support can be achieved by providing credit to the farmers immediately after the harvest. If the government procurement is reduced by 50 per cent in Bangladesh, and providing 150 per cent of the cost of running PFDS as credit, Bangladesh can improve the farmers' income and achieve better stability of cereal prices at a cost less than one-third of the current costs of the PFDS. |
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Keywords: | price support food procurement |
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