State Intervention at the Cabbage-Roots: A Case Study from Kenya
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Just what is the Cooperative Society? You can have one for coffee or for maize, or for wheat flour or whatever can sit until next week and then be sold, but not for cabbage or other vegetables that will spoil tomorrow. It just can't work, or it could only work if they had an airplane to send the produce to Europe or America where there is a very high price. But who will agree to allow the Society to control this trade when the market is right there at Mombasa?!
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تاریخ انتشار 2009