shows the distribution of the 1761 sampled households according to transport costs to Antsirabe. The bimodality reflects the oversampling of households in the most remote areas; our sample is not designed to be representative of the spatial distribution of the region's population. At any rate, for almost half of our sample, total transport costs lie in the range of 140–180 ariary/kg (2100 ariary=1USD) or around 75 USD/ton. By comparison, during harvest season 2006 (April–June), paddy rice sold for 300–350 ariary/kg in Antsirabe. Nonetheless, as we will see, many of these remote households still sell rice for export to Antsirabe