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Mouvements et commerce des bovins dans la région de Mandoto (Moyen Ouest de Madagascar)
Madagascar : revue de géographie, vol. 12, janvier-juin 1968 pp:7 - 58Auteur(s) : Raison J.P.
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Mots-clés : GEOGRAPHIE RURALE / COMMERCE / BOVINS/ COMMERCIALISATION /MADAGASCAR/MOYEN OUEST /MANDOTO
Résumé de l’article
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[EN] Combining oral enquiries with the analysis of administrative documents proper to Madagascar, the cattle passports (« passeports de bovidés »), the Author studies the cattle movements in a part of the Malagasy Middle-West, around the small town of Mandoto, west of Antsirabe, in a long empty region, now progressively occupied by peasant people, on the « frontier » between agricultural and pastoral regions. Two main types of cattle migrations are to be distinguished. The first one is connected with movements of cattle breeders or peasants, but the only important movements of this kind are those of the Bara (from the South West of Madagascar), who progressively go on towards the North and North-West. Few immigrant peasants walk back home with cattle, and fewer every year seem those peasants who come to Mandoto for cattle buying. The second type is connected with trade : nearly 16.000 beasts left Mandoto in 1966 ; so this town is a bigger market than Ambalavao and Ihosy, although these ones are better known, but is still far behind Tsiroanomandidy, which mainly feeds Antananarivo. Though Mandoto market is not a seasonal one, there are important periodical variations : trade is more active at the end of the rains and the beginning of the dry season (from april to june) as the cattle tracks are hardly practicable before, and food and water are scarce on the way later on.