Fok Michel, Koné Mama, Djouara Hamady, Dolo Abdoulaye.
2000. Combined and changing effects of market incentives, technical innovations and support on maize production in Southern Mali.
In : Tomorrow's agriculture: incentives, institutions, infrastructure and innovations : 24 th International Conference of the IAAE, Berlin, Germany, 13-18 August 2000
Matériel d'accompagnement : 1 poster
Résumé : The paper analyses the evolution of maize production during the last two decades in Southern Mali, a region known mainly for its cotton production. Maize production actually took off during the first half of the 1980s as a result of a voluntary programme associating widespread and adapted technical support, effective input provision and guaranteed price under a compulsory state-controlled cereal trading. From 1986 while adoption of intensive maize sole cropping was in progress, the implementation of Structural Adjustment Policy through cereal market liberalisation and abolition of input subsidies firstly led farmers to return to traditional intercropping with decreased fertiliser use. Maize is showing again an increased contribution to food security from the beginning of the 1990s, in particular after the currency devaluation in 1994. Farmers are adopting more intensive maize sole cropping, to the extent of some specialisation at the expense of millet and sorghum. Our case study emphasises the need for long assessment of the impact of technical innovations along with changes in market incentives. State market control has helped introduce technical innovations farmers adopt again after market liberalisation provided input provision remains effective as it is within an integrated cotton production.
Classification Agris : E16 - Économie de la production
Auteurs et affiliations
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Fok Michel, CIRAD-CA-COTON (FRA)
ORCID: 0000-0001-8709-5687
- Koné Mama, IER (MLI)
- Djouara Hamady, IER (MLI)
- Dolo Abdoulaye, CMDT (MLI)
Autres liens de la publication
Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/476062/)
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