Improving Agricultural Market Performance:
Creation and Development of Market Institutions
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OIC MC LINE MINISTRY MARKET INSTITUTION CLASSIFICATION(S) FUNCTION(S)
 Federal
Ministry of
Agriculture and
Irrigation
 Federal
Ministry of
Animal
Resources,
Fisheries, and
Ranges
Suriname°
 Ministry of
Agriculture,
Animal
Husbandry and
Fishery
 Ministry of
Trade and
Industry
a) Stichting Behoud
Bananen Sector (SBBS)
a) State-owned
economic
enterprise
a) Exchange &
physical
b) Surinam American
Industries Limited
(SAIL)
b) State-owned
economic
enterprise
b) Exchange &
physical
c) Central Fisheries Port
Suriname (CEVIHAS)
c) State-owned
economic
enterprise
c) Exchange &
physical
Syria
 Ministry of
Agriculture and
Agrarian
Reform
 Ministry of
Economy and
Trade
 N/a  N/a  N/a
Tajikistan
 Ministry of
Agriculture and
Environment
Protection
a) Agricultural service
cooperatives
a) Cooperative a) Exchange &
facilitating
b) Universal Commodity
Exchange (UCE)
b) Commodity
exchange
platform
b) Exchange &
facilitating
Togo°
 Ministry of
Agriculture,
Livestock, and
Fishery
 Ministry of
Commerce and
Industry,
Finance
 Ministry of
Health
a) Agricultural Input
Supply and
Management Pool
(CAGIA)
a) State-owned
economic
enterprise
a) Exchange &
physical
b) National Food Security
Agency (ANSAT)
b) Licensed public
warehousing
company
b) Exchange &
physical
c) New Cotton Company
of Togo (NSCT)
c) State-owned
economic
enterprise
c) Exchange &
physical
Tunisia*
 Ministry of
Agriculture and
Water
Resources
 Ministry of
Commerce and
Industry
a) Agency for Urban
Rehabilitation and
Renovation (ARRU)
a) Commodity
market
regulation
authority
a) Facilitating
b) Bir El Kassaa b) Commodity
exchange
platform
b) Exchange &
facilitating
c) Chambers of c) Commodity c) Facilitating