Are small Sub-Sahara African farmers willing to pay for vegetative propagated orange fleshed sweetpotato planting material? Evidence from Central Mozambique
| dc.creator | Labarta, Ricardo A. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T15:07:30Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T04:45:13Z | |
| dc.description | This paper evaluates farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for the vegetative propagated orange fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) planting material that is many times considered as a public good. Famers’ WTP for OFSP vines was elicited by conducting a real choice experiment (RCE) among 121 small sweetpotato growers in central Mozambique with prior experience growing OFSP but with no participation in OFSP vine distributions in the previous 3 years of the experiment. Results reveals a higher farmers’ willingness to pay for OFSP varieties (US$0.07-0.12) compared to the non-orange planting material (US$ 0.03) and compared to the traditional subsidized price of clean sweetpotato vines (US$ 0.06) used in Mozambique. These results may encourage formation of a network of private vine multipliers that would supply permanently OFSP planting material in wider areas. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.49447 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/49447/files/Labarta%202009%20AAEA%20selected%20paper.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/49447 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/554418 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/49447 | |
| dc.title | Are small Sub-Sahara African farmers willing to pay for vegetative propagated orange fleshed sweetpotato planting material? Evidence from Central Mozambique | |
| dc.type | Text |