[ Analyse économétrique de l’offre et de la demande de maïs au Bénin ]
Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2019, Pages 185–202
Jean Adanguidi1
1 Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture. BP 1327, Cotonou, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2019 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Maize is one of the most important food crops in Benin. It is cultivated and consumed throughout the country in various forms. Its culture remains dependent on climatic hazards and the culture is based on rudimentary methods. The Government of Benin aware of this issue, has put in place policies to revitalize the sector to increase production of maize. This paper aims to estimate maize supply and demand in Benin using econometric techniques for forecasting purposes. The data used cover the period 1990-2015. The results show the effects of differentiated scales yields of maize production in relation to the areas cultivated according to the departments, as well as the effects of complementarity and substitutability between maize and cotton on the one hand and another between maize and yam.
Author Keywords: Maize, supply, demand, system of simultaneous equations, Benin.
Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2019, Pages 185–202
Jean Adanguidi1
1 Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’Alimentation et l’Agriculture. BP 1327, Cotonou, Benin
Original language: French
Copyright © 2019 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Maize is one of the most important food crops in Benin. It is cultivated and consumed throughout the country in various forms. Its culture remains dependent on climatic hazards and the culture is based on rudimentary methods. The Government of Benin aware of this issue, has put in place policies to revitalize the sector to increase production of maize. This paper aims to estimate maize supply and demand in Benin using econometric techniques for forecasting purposes. The data used cover the period 1990-2015. The results show the effects of differentiated scales yields of maize production in relation to the areas cultivated according to the departments, as well as the effects of complementarity and substitutability between maize and cotton on the one hand and another between maize and yam.
Author Keywords: Maize, supply, demand, system of simultaneous equations, Benin.
Abstract: (french)
Le maïs est l’une des cultures vivrières les plus importantes au Bénin. Il est cultivé et consommé sur toute l’étendue du territoire sous diverses formes. Sa culture reste cependant dépendante des aléas climatiques et la culture est basée sur des méthodes rudimentaires. Le Gouvernement du bénin conscient de cet enjeu, a mis en place des politiques de redynamisation de la filière afin d’accroître la production de maïs. Le présent article a pour objectif d’estimer l’offre et la demande de maïs au Bénin à l’aide de techniques économétriques à des fins de prévisions. Les données utilisées couvrent la période 1990-2015. Les résultats obtenus mettent en évidence des effets de rendements d’échelles différenciés de la production de maïs par rapport aux superficies cultivées selon les départements, de même que des effets de complémentarité et de substituabilité entre le maïs et le coton d’une part et d’autre entre le maïs et l’igname.
Author Keywords: Maïs, offre, demande, système d’équations simultanées, Bénin.
How to Cite this Article
Jean Adanguidi, “Econometric analysis of maize supply and demand in Benin,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 185–202, April 2019.
