The indigenous grain market in the northern part of Namibia, the country's main production area, is reasonably well developed, competitive and sophisticated by developing country standards (Keyler 1995a; Keyler 1995b. Ch. 5; Mukete and Sheuyange 1995; Rohrbach 1995). As in other countries of southern Africa, government controls, subsidies and other interventions are being phased out, a liberalization that is also helping to foster the gradual emergence of a commercial grain market .