The Response of Ethiopian Grain Markets to Liberalization

Table 1. National estimates of production and sales of major grains for 1995/96 season
by the farm households in Ethiopia

	Total quantity of grain produced	Total quantity of grain marketed	Proportion of grain marketed out of total grain produced	Total quantity of grains purchased by EGTE*	Proportion of EGTE’s grain purchase out of total grains marketed
Grain	(tons)	(tons)	(%)	(tons)	__________(%)__________
Maize	1,696,801	506,436	29.8	29,825	5.9
Tef	1,313,035	409,799	31.2	9,468	2.3
Wheat	836,250	233,904	28.0	22,223	9.5
Barley	853,979	217,661	25.5	420	0.2
Sorghum	1,342,251	228,613	17.0	2,315	1.0
Millet	200,230	38,027	19.0	70	0.2
Pulses	583,346	244,080	41.8	2,849	1.2
Oil Seeds	148,956	115,975	_________77.9________	4,435	______________3.8_____________
Total	6,974,848	1,994,495	________28.60	71,605	___________3.59___________

Source: GMRP (1996) and EGTE (1996)

Note: *Over the periods from July 1 1995 to June 2 1996 the EGTE purchased 6,079 tons of maize

and 6,294 tons of wheat from the farmers at the support price (GMRP, 1996).

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