Summary of the financing of maize production and price risks in Tanzania

WORLD BANK GROUP AFRICA REGION, PRIVATE SECTOR UNIT 33682 Summary of 2005 The Financing of Maize Production and Price Risks in Tanzania EPTEMBER S Lack of agricultural credit facilities hampers the develop- techniques. Domestic integration often serves as an over- ment of an efficient commercial agricultural sector. Mar- all indicator of the performance of the market, assessing 12 ket-based risk management instruments can facilitate its efficiency and evaluating how regions are efficiently access to agricultural credit at better terms as they increase linked and integrated. erefore, the degree of spatial in- UMBER the creditworthiness of farmers and other agents of the ag- tegration has important implications for price risk man- N E ricultural sector. e purpose of this study is to explore agement. Likewise, the design of price risk management OT N public