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TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Backgrounds and Objectives................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Project Research Activities.................................................................................................. 2 1.3 Organization of the report.................................................................................................... 3 CHAPTER 2: POLICY BACKGROUND FOR BENIN............................................................... 5 2.1 Introduction.......................................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Background on Benin .......................................................................................................... 6 2.3 Evolution of Economic Policy............................................................................................. 7 2.3.1 Early post-colonial period (1960- 1974)................................................................... 7 2.3.3 Structural adjustment (1989 – present)................................................................... 10 2.3.4 Agricultural performance since 1990...................................................................... 14 2.4 Review of Previous Research on Benin............................................................................ 16 CHAPTER 3 – BACKGROUND AND HISTORY OF ECONOMIC POLICY REFORMS IN MALAWI...................................................................................................................................... 23 3.1 Introduction and Background to the Economy .................................................................. 23 3.2 Historic Perspective of Agricultural Market Reforms in Malawi...................................... 24 3.3 Recent Agricultural Strategies and Safety Net Interventions ............................................ 26 CHAPTER 4: RESULTS OF THE BÉNIN SMALL FARMER, COMMUNITY, AND GROUPEMENT VILLAGEOIS SURVEYS ............................................................................... 33 4.1: Results of the Benin Small Farmer Survey........................................................................ 33 4.1.1 Survey methods....................................................................................................... 33 4.1.2 General characteristics of farm households ............................................................ 35 4.1.3 Land use.................................................................................................................. 44 4.1.4 Allocation of time ................................................................................................... 47 4.1.5 Use of agricultural inputs........................................................................................ 50 4.1.6 Agricultural production........................................................................................... 69 4.1.7 Agricultural marketing and storage ........................................................................ 73 4.1.8 Expenditure............................................................................................................. 86 4.1.9 Household assets and housing characteristics......................................................... 96
4.1.10 Sources of information.......................................................................................... 99 4.1.11 Perceived changes in well-being......................................................................... 102 4.2: Results of the Bénin Community Survey ....................................................................... 105 4.2.1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 105 4.2.2 Transportation infrastructure ................................................................................ 106 4.2.3 Agricultural markets ............................................................................................. 107 4.2.4 Activities of groupements villageois and groupements feminins ......................... 110 4.2.5 Credit..................................................................................................................... 112 4.2.6 Extension services................................................................................................. 112 4.2.7 Agricultural production and marketing................................................................. 113 4.3: Results of the Bénin Survey of Groupements Villageois ............................................... 117 4.3.1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 117 4.3.2 Survey methods..................................................................................................... 119 4.3.3 Basic characteristics.............................................................................................. 119 4.3.4 Human capital ....................................................................................................... 120 4.3.5 Assets .................................................................................................................... 122 4.3.6 Commercial activities of the GV .......................................................................... 122 4.3.7 Budgets ................................................................................................................. 126 4.3.8 Problems and perceptions of GVs......................................................................... 127 CHAPTER 5 – RESULTS FROM THE MALAWI SMALLHOLDER FARMER AND COMMUNITY SURVEYS ........................................................................................................ 231 5.1: Results from the Smallholder Farmer Survey................................................................. 231 5.1.1 Survey methods...................................................................................................... 231 5.1.2 Farm household characteristics and income sources ............................................ 233 5.1.3 Land use................................................................................................................. 237 5.1.4 Time allocation ..................................................................................................... 239 5.1.5 Use of agricultural inputs and assets..................................................................... 239 5.1.6 Changes in labor and inputs since 1995................................................................ 247 5.1.7 Crop production ..................................................................................................... 250 5.1.8 Crop storage........................................................................................................... 251 5.1.9 Agricultural marketing.......................................................................................... 253
Page 1 and 2: IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL MARKET REFOR
Page 6 and 7: 5.1.10 Expenditure patterns .......
Page 8 and 9: CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION 1.1 Backgr
Page 10 and 11: villageois, (GV)) was needed as the
Page 12 and 13: CHAPTER 2: POLICY BACKGROUND FOR BE
Page 14 and 15: 2.3 Evolution of Economic Policy 2.
Page 16 and 17: Under pressure from the World Bank
Page 18 and 19: anking system has been restored to
Page 20 and 21: Fertilizer can be imported outside
Page 22 and 23: particularly urban wage-earners. On
Page 24 and 25: Soulé (1996) describes the evoluti
Page 26 and 27: led to a more sustainable agricultu
Page 28: Table 2.4 - Gross farm revenue from
Page 31 and 32: Malawi’s economy is heavily depen
Page 33 and 34: the reduction of its operations in
Page 35 and 36: crops is also difficult because tob
Page 37 and 38: Table 3.1 CROP 1982/83 1983/84 1984
Page 40 and 41: CHAPTER 4: RESULTS OF THE BÉNIN SM
Page 42 and 43: where W v is the weight for a house
Page 44 and 45: heads. This suggests that some of t
Page 46 and 47: And school attendance is much highe
Page 48 and 49: Crop production is the main activit
Page 50 and 51: (33 percent). Livestock income is m
Page 52 and 53: Somewhat surprisingly, the relation
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It is no more common among richer h
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production, and women actually spen
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Seed use by crop Although only 18 p
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Looking at the results by departmen
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Ouémé presents an unusual case: j
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Market prices have significant effe
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policies of SONAPRA to discourage
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crops are responsible for this incr
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Respondents were asked whether the
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Female-headed households, not surpr
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households are not considered credi
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In almost every category of agricul
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This discussion implies that farms
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eturns per hectare and labor-intens
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farm household and tends to be smal
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Surprisingly, the value of sales as
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Finally, proximity to an all-season
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Changes in crop marketing In this s
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Poor households are more likely to
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it is clear that virtually all grow
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production to total expenditure is
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a significant number of household (
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non-food spending. These are follow
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Larger farms are associated with hi
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This would not be surprising in lig
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Female-headed households appear to
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poorest expenditure category to jus
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headed household were more likely t
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Households in every expenditure cat
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An important result of this analysi
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oad network, although those citing
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questions posed by the IFPRI-LARES
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With regard to cotton marketing, al
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Village leaders were asked to ident
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Marketing patterns Village leaders
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4.3: Results of the Bénin Survey o
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4.3.2 Survey methods At the time of
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officers have CM2 certificates. Thi
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Suppliers The GV representatives we
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Cotton area per GV ranges from 145
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The largest cost items are schools
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members and 10 percent of the membe
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Table 4.1.1-Description of sample o
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Table 4.1.7-Age, education, and lit
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Table 4.1.13-Ethnic background of h
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Table 4.1.19-Importance of each sou
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Table 4.1.25-Number of plots and ar
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Table 4.1.31-Land tenure by expendi
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Table 4.1.37-Change in labor alloca
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Table 4.1.42-Seed use by sex of hea
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Table 4.1.47-Perceived change in av
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Table 4.1.54-Share of producers of
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Table 4.1.59-Fertilizer use by farm
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Table 4.1.64-Characteristics of fer
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Table 4.1.69-Change in fertilizer a
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Table 4.1.75-Allocation of labor by
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Table 4.1.82-Allocation of labor by
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Table 4.1.89-Change in credit avail
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Table 4.1.94-Percent of households
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Table 4.1.102-Area allocation by cr
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Table 4.1.106-Area allocation by cr
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Table 4.1.110-Marketed share of out
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Table 4.1.114-Marketed share of out
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Table 4.1.117-Regression for market
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Table 4.1.120-Change in the type of
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Table 4.1.128-Perceived change in r
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Table 4.1.135-Main reason for stori
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Table 4.1.140-Summary of food expen
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Table 4.1.144-Food consumption by e
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Table 4.1.149-Results of regression
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Table 4.1.152-Value of household as
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Table 4.1.156-Value of household as
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Table 4.1.160-Housing characteristi
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Table 4.1.162-Housing characteristi
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Table 4.1.165-Main source of water
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Table 4.1.170-Source of information
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Table 4.1.176-Source of information
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Table 4.1.181-Regression for percei
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Table 4.2.5-Change in number of veh
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Table 4.2.12-Availability and sourc
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Table 4.2.21-Number of GFs per vill
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Table 4.2.30-Percentage of villages
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Table 4.2.34-Distribution of villag
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Table 4.3.1-Distribution of GVs by
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Table 4.3.9-Number of each type of
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Table 4.3.12-Percentage of secretar
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Table 4.3.19-Distribution of GVs by
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Table 4.3.24-Percentage of inputs s
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Table 4.3.32-Average value of curre
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Table 4.3.40-Percentage of GVs in w
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CHAPTER 5 - RESULTS FROM THE MALAWI
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The weights are used to calculate a
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On average, around 20 percent of th
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agricultural work. Other less commo
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5.1.4 Time allocation In Malawi, as
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attributed it to the fact that fert
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insignificant. The coefficient on t
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As in the results from the previous
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most important sources of input on
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applied for credit compared to 20 p
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less than 1 mt per ha which are fai
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5.1.9 Agricultural marketing Market
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Households that belong to a club al
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most important contractors are the
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indicates that the extent of povert
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wheat, and fruits and nuts, a highe
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Surprisingly, the education of the
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Housing characteristics The overwhe
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It was also important to find out w
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Surprisingly, tobacco growers are m
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Over three-quarter of the EPAs repo
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The changes in the number and types
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5.2.11 Storage Facilities On averag
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Table 5.2 - Household characteristi
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Table 5.7 - Percentage of household
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Table 5.12 - Farm labor use and all
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Table 5.15 - Determinants of the de
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Table 5.17 - Sources of fertilizer
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Table 5.22 - Access and use of cred
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Table 5.25 - Percent of households
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Table 5.34 - Crop disposal by type
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Table 5.38 - Determinants of Market
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Table 5.42 - Summary of expenditure
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Table 5.45 - Food consumption by so
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Table 5.51 - Food consumption by ex
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Table 5.56 - Determinants of per ca
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Table 5.59 Percent of households ow
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Table 5.62 - Characteristics of the
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Table 5.68 - Determinants of percei
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Table 5.71 - Average yields per cro
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Table 5.77 - Changes in the availab
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Figure 5.1 Distribution of househol
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Figure 5.7 - Percentage of Househol
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CHAPTER 6 - SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AN
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Fertilizer Half of the far
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Regression analysis indicates that
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Among those seeing improvement, the
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Agricultural markets Three quart
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The economic reforms have boosted p
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department. The farms with very lit
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Strengthen the extension service by
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The most time-consuming agricultura
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Most common means of transport to t
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Small farmers in Malawi are mainly
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households have less assets and les
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Place more serious efforts to impro
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REFERENCES Ahoyo Adjovi, N.R. and F
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