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Transport
increases access to markets
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transport' between farms, roads and markets is crucial. Farmers with
bicycles, carts or pack animals can carry more produce to market more
quickly. They have larger circles of travel and contacts, giving access
to new information, markets and trading possibilities. Intermediate
means of transport stimulate greater trade, production and profit.
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In Makete in Tanzania, some people use donkeys for the transport of
potatoes from field to village and from village to market. While women
and men transport headloads of 20-30 kg, a single donkey can carry
80 kg. In one study, donkey-owning households in Makete were found
to have higher levels of agricultural inputs and outputs, higher incomes
and more wealth indicators than other households. The benefit-cost
ratio of donkey investment (7:1) was very high. |
Potatoes brought to market in ox carts in
Madagascar |
Use of donkey for marketing products
in Ethiopia
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Bicycles used to market milk in
Madagascar
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