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Food Strategies: Trading |
| Section: CULTURE / CROSSROADS |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2002 |
| Size: 475 Words, 2,836 Characters |
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Trading refers to the buying and selling of products, although the definition is stretched in the survey to include small-scale processing or the provision of a service such as cycle repair. The operation is essentially "petty trading" at roadsides, markets, or in the home. It is mos...
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...250-pound bag of maize and then he returns to buy 100 pounds of beans. Omuse sells these from her house, bringing in an additional 280 shillings per week. If needed, she can trade fish four times a week, boosting weekly earnings to 720 shillings. Her systematic trading methods can thus result in more than double the 300 shillings possible from a six-day week of casual labor in Western. --P.H.
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