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.
The purpose of the article is to analyze the efficiency of groundnut processing units using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. The study was carried out in the district of Covè, a district in central Benin where groundnut processing agribusiness is quite developed. Data were collected from 120 groundnut processing units. The results obtained show that 30% of the processing units studied are in a situation of increasing return to scale, 35% in a situation of constant returns to scale and the rest is 35% in a situation of Decreasing return to scale.