[ Structure de marché de quelques produits agricoles de consommation courante et propension de l’agrobusiness familial au Sud-Kivu montagneux en RD Congo ]
Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2024, Pages 264–281
Jean-Pierre Kashangabuye CIRIMWAMI1
1 Aménagement et Développement Durable des Territoires, Ecole Doctorale Gestion des Ressources Naturelles et Développement de l’ESSA Forêt, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 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.
In mountainous South Kivu, local markets are characterized by imperfect competition because not only is the information imperfect, but also transaction costs are high, sometimes arbitrary and hamper arbitrage in the marketing chain. There is freedom of entry and exit in the market but the information is not known in the same way and accessible to everyone in all markets. There are several sellers and several buyers on the market, but the products are heterogeneous. The price of agricultural products on the market are not stable and for good reason: the devaluation of the local currency, unpredictable taxes and over-taxation, the multiplicity of tax services on the same product, freedom in setting prices by the players, suppliers and/or wholesalers as well as retailers (unfair competition), a choice of products dictated by origin. The oligopoly situation experienced in the sector is caused by the concentration of producers. The determinants of consumption that are common to the four products studied are the market price, the income/wealth of the consumer, the prices of other substitutable goods and services, complementary goods and services, customer tastes/preferences as well as the family responsibility. Almost all consumers have the same behavior when it comes to essential goods. The latent factors determining the success of agribusiness in beans and corn are the profile, infrastructure, resources used, production technologies used, entrepreneurial orientation and marketing. The latent factors determining the success of cassava agribusiness are the resources mobilized and infrastructure. The latent factors determining the success of potato agribusiness are infrastructure, entrepreneurial orientation, marketing and production techniques.
Author Keywords: Market structure, propensity of family agribusiness, mountainous South Kivu, determinants of product consumption, latent factors, marketing.
Volume 42, Issue 2, April 2024, Pages 264–281
Jean-Pierre Kashangabuye CIRIMWAMI1
1 Aménagement et Développement Durable des Territoires, Ecole Doctorale Gestion des Ressources Naturelles et Développement de l’ESSA Forêt, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar
Original language: French
Copyright © 2024 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
In mountainous South Kivu, local markets are characterized by imperfect competition because not only is the information imperfect, but also transaction costs are high, sometimes arbitrary and hamper arbitrage in the marketing chain. There is freedom of entry and exit in the market but the information is not known in the same way and accessible to everyone in all markets. There are several sellers and several buyers on the market, but the products are heterogeneous. The price of agricultural products on the market are not stable and for good reason: the devaluation of the local currency, unpredictable taxes and over-taxation, the multiplicity of tax services on the same product, freedom in setting prices by the players, suppliers and/or wholesalers as well as retailers (unfair competition), a choice of products dictated by origin. The oligopoly situation experienced in the sector is caused by the concentration of producers. The determinants of consumption that are common to the four products studied are the market price, the income/wealth of the consumer, the prices of other substitutable goods and services, complementary goods and services, customer tastes/preferences as well as the family responsibility. Almost all consumers have the same behavior when it comes to essential goods. The latent factors determining the success of agribusiness in beans and corn are the profile, infrastructure, resources used, production technologies used, entrepreneurial orientation and marketing. The latent factors determining the success of cassava agribusiness are the resources mobilized and infrastructure. The latent factors determining the success of potato agribusiness are infrastructure, entrepreneurial orientation, marketing and production techniques.
Author Keywords: Market structure, propensity of family agribusiness, mountainous South Kivu, determinants of product consumption, latent factors, marketing.
Abstract: (french)
Dans le Sud-Kivu montangneux, les marchés locaux sont caractérisés par une concurrence imparfaite car non seulement l’information est imparfaite, mais aussi les coûts de transaction sont élevés, parfois arbitraires et gênent l’arbitrage dans la chaîne de commercialisation. Il existe une liberté d’entrée et de sortie dans le marché mais l’information n’est pas connue de la même façon et accessible à tous sur tous les marchés. Il existe sur le marché plusieurs vendeurs, plusieurs acheteurs mais les produits sont hétérogènes. Le prix des produits agricoles sur le marché ne sont pas stables et pour cause: la dévaluation de la monnaie locale, des taxes imprévisibles et une sur-taxation, la multiplicité des services de taxation sur un même produit, la liberté dans la fixation des prix par les acteurs, des fournisseurs et/ou grossistes à la fois détaillants (concurrence déloyale), un choix des produits dicté par la provenance. La situation d’oligopole vécue dans le milieu est provoquée par la concentration des producteurs. Les déterminants de la consommation qui sont communs aux quatre produits étudiés sont le prix du marché, le revenu/richesse du consommateur, les prix d’autres biens et services substituables, les biens et services complémentaires, les goûts/préférences des clients ainsi que la charge familiale. La quasi-totalité des consommateurs ont les mêmes comportements face aux biens de première nécessité. Les facteurs latents déterminants du succès de l’agrobusiness sur le haricot et le maïs sont le profil, les infrastructures, les ressources utilisées, les technologies de production utilisées, l’orientation entrepreneuriale et la commercialisation. Les facteurs latents déterminants du succès de l’agrobusiness sur le manioc sont les ressources mobilisées et les infrastructures. Les facteurs latents déterminants du succès de l’agrobusiness sur la pomme de terre sont les infrastructures, l’orientation entrepreneuriale, la commercialisation et les techniques de production.
Author Keywords: Structure du marché, propension de l’agrobusiness familial, Sud-Kivu montagneux, déterminants de la consommation des produits, facteurs latents, la commercialisation.
How to Cite this Article
Jean-Pierre Kashangabuye CIRIMWAMI, “Market structure of some agricultural products of regulary consumption and propensity of family agribusiness in mountainous South Kivu in DR Congo,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 264–281, April 2024.
