CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Structure and performance of the rice marketing system in East Pakistan
The broad objective of this study is to analyze the salient organizational and operational features of the rice marketing system in East Pakistan with a view to testing the existing hypotheses on the performances of traditional markets and generating new ones.
Farruk, M. O. · 1970
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Abstract
The analysis describes the marketing channels, institutions, intermediaries, and other functionaries involved in the marketing process; describes the overall geographic pattern of interregional transfer of rice and paddy in East Pakistan with specific reference to the urban wholesale markets of Dacca; analyzes the extent of interdependence in intermarket price formation; analyzes the extent of seasonal price variations and its relationship to storage practices and costs; and lastly, evaluates the present marketing system in terms of efficiency and the nature of competition.
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