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Selling at the farm-gate or travelling to market Marcel Fafchamps, CSAE, Oxford University Ruth Vargas Hill, Department of Economics, Oxford University WPS/2004-30 Download the Paper (PDF format) - September 10, 2004 Tell a colleague about it. Printing Tips: Select 'print as image' in the Acrobat print dialog if you have trouble printing. ABSTRACT: Using detailed survey data from Uganda, this paper examines coffee producers sell to itinerant traders or directly to markets, where they can get a higher price but must incur a transport cost. We find that selling to the market is more likely when the quantity sold is large and the close by. Wealthy farmers are less likely to sell to the market, possibly because the shadow value of their time is higher. But if they have a large quantity of coffee for sale, they are more likely to sell it to the market. They are also more likely to travel to a distant market. These findings are consistent with their better ability to pay for public transportation. SUGGESTED CITATION: Marcel Fafchamps and Ruth Vargas Hill, "Selling at the farm-gate or travelling to market" (September 10, 2004). The Centre for the Study of African Economies Working Paper Series. Working Paper 230. http://www.bepress.com/csae/paper230