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Middlemen and peasants in rice marketing in the Philippines
Author(s) -
Hayami Y.,
Kikuchi M.,
Marciano E.B.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1574-0862
pISSN - 0169-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-0862.1999.tb00555.x
Subject(s) - monopsony , competition (biology) , monopoly , business , marketing , procurement , agricultural economics , field survey , marketing channel , agriculture , agribusiness , economics , market economy , geography , labour economics , ecology , cartography , archaeology , biology
This paper reports the results of a field survey covering all links in the channel of rice marketing from farmers to consumers in Laguna Province, Philippines. The survey revealed a highly competitive nature of rice marketing in this area where the countless number of middlemen compete in the procurement of paddy from farmers for rice mills, leaving little room for monopoly/monopsony exercises. Intense competition was also found in wholesaling by mills to retailers as well as retailing to consumers.