Abstract

complete chain of industries producing inputs and commodities which are linked to processing and marketing of food; thus, the food sector includes the farm input, farm producer, and food processing, wholesaling, and retailing industries. The economic structure of the food sector is viewed in the traditional framework as the characteristics of industry organization, including the number and size distribution of firms as related to firm conduct and economic performance. The economic question that surfaces concerns the potential of the food sector, in its current economic structural formation, to contribute to domestic food shortages and price inflation. The purpose of this paper is to discuss (a) the economic structure of the food sector as it

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