@article{Zuvekas:336998,
      recid = {336998},
      author = {Zuvekas, Clarence, Jr.},
      title = {A Survey of Crop and Livestock Marketing in Bolivia  (Revised)},
      address = {1977-09},
      number = {1485-2023-849},
      series = {General Working Document #5 (Working Document Series:  Bolivia)},
      pages = {74},
      year = {1977},
      note = {This study constitutes Report No. 8 under Contract No.  12-17-07-5-1651, June 24, 1976 (ERS-192-B-76).},
      abstract = {Report Introduction:  This paper reviews the literature on  Bolivian crop and livestock marketing, broadly defined to  include such topics as transportation, food processing, and  price policy.  Significant changes in marketing have  occurred since the 1952 revolution and subsequent agrarian  reform, and these changes seem to have played a major role  in raising campesino incomes in many parts of the country.   For this reason alone, serious government attention to  marketing is justified.  There are other reasons, too, for  being concerned with marketing.  Export surpluses of sugar,  rice, cotton, and beef have sometimes been difficult to  sell. In late 1976, for example, Bolivia's rice stocks were  equivalent to 3 years' domestic consumption.  Bolivian beef  has a poor reputation for quality.  High transportation  costs limit overseas markets for the above commodities and  for potential future exports such as corn and soybeans.   Failure to market export surpluses has obvious depressing  effects on farm prices and incomes.  The low rate of  capacity utilization of oilcrop processing plants is an  indication of another set of marketing problems which  includes inattention to the use of by-products for balanced  livestock feed.  Other issues with which the government  should be concerned are weights and measures, grades and  standards, storage and handling, and the promotion of  marketing cooperatives.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/336998},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.336998},
}