Organization and Performance of Cotton Sectors in Africa ... - infoDev

sectors outside Africa, farmers own and retain their cotton seeds after ginning,meaning that the performance of these markets directly affects farmers.Table 4.2 features the valorization of seed cotton by-products as a processindicator. As figure 4.3 recognizes, although the organization (and hence performance)of oil and cake markets are related to the organization of the cottonsector, the nature of this relationship is not the same as that between sectororganization and performance on, say, input supply or quality control. Historically,in WCA, the organization of the oil sector was bound up with thenational monopoly in cotton ginning—all part of the overall developmentapproach to the cotton filière (supply chain). 43 Although this is history morethan an inherent part of a national monopoly in cotton ginning, it has determinedthe structure and evolution of the cottonseed oil industries in most ofthe WCA countries. Meanwhile, market-based cotton sectors are generallyassociated with more or less competitive oil markets.A TYPOLOGY OF AFRICAN COTTON SECTORS 61