Additionally, governments disintegrate the rural opposition of producers by granting eclectic advantages to small farmers. For instance, according to Bates, such benefits serve as side-payments by remunerating scrupulous members of the agrarian sector for the failures they endure as a result of the government's programs. Resultantly, the government in Africa stabilizes the compliance of a select few to detrimental programs aimed directly at the concerns of farmers. However, according to Rapley, Africanists are increasingly calling for state retreat in the form of decentralization or devolution(145). Obviously, Africans disagree with the agenda of the government and desire to change it.
In brief, governments and the agricultural markets in Africa display a joint relationship in the function of the market economy. However, the intervention of the African governments in the market system has hindered the growth and development process within the country. Yet, the policies and strategies implemented for reform, evidently, undermine the concerns of most farmers while benefiting upscale producers of agrarian crops. Thus, hostilities and opposition towards the governments arise among citizens in the rural sector of the country. Yet, African governments continue to officiate as proxies of privy concern and power hungry agencies while controlling the flow of trade and the overall operation of the market economy. Overall, governments in Africa exemplify the sovereign rule. .
