Market Prospects for Groundnut in West Africa COMMON FUND ...

West Africa
Niger
A Niger country market study was implemented during July and August in
Niamey, Dosso, Maradi and Zinder, including structured and semi-structured
interviews with farmers, traders and other private sector stakeholders, NGOs
and government bodies. Results from the study are currently being compiled.
A questionnaire has been sent to NARS partner, INRAN, in order to
triangulate data from the country market case study.
Senegal
A diagnostic questionnaire sent to NARS partner, ISRA/CNRA, to UNIS, and
to CIRAD, in order to provide a baseline of commercial and market data in
support of the country market case study for Senegal. A very useful and
applicable study of the Senegal groundnut sector, with extensive price
information and analysis, was recently published as a PhD thesis by Dr James
Gray of the University of Vermont, USA (Gray 2002). Communication was
made with the author in order to bring the results of the study up to date.
Interviews were conducted with Dr Oumar Chiekh Ba, director of the ISRA
Bureau (BAME), and Dr Alain Mayeux of CIRAD, who has already conducted
extensive market research on the European market for confectionary
groundnut (ARB) of Senegalese origin. A follow-up visit to the Groundnut
Basin (during the groundnut harvest) and to Dakar was made in November -
December 2003.
Mali
A diagnostic questionnaire sent to NARS partner, IER/CRRA, in order to
provide a baseline of commercial and market data in support of the country
market case study for Mali. Reference materials on the Mali groundnut sector
included a 1998 country study by the Ministry of Agriculture, and a follow-up
country study of the Mali groundnut sector by O Kodio of IER. This
collaborative support of the market study by IER was most helpful to the
purposes of the study. A follow-up visit to Mali was made in November 2003.
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