Marketing and Production of Fruits and Vegetables in India

raj, Nee; Chittora, Akshay; Bisht, Vinita; Johar, Vishal

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2017.609.356

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“…As a result, smallholder farmers find it difficult to dispose their produce at attractive price and places of their choice due to perceived weaknesses in vegetable marketing system. This negatively affects vegetable farmers' motivation to invest in vegetable production and meet the demands of consumers, hence decrease in farm income (Chittora et al, 2017). Smallholder farmers effective market participation are the right pathway of pulling rural people out of food insecurity (FAO, 2016;Montalbano, 2017).…”

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Smallholder Farmers’ Decision to Participate in Vegetable Marketing and the Volume of Sales in West Shewa Zone of Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia

Rikitu¹,

Emana²,

Haji³

et al. 2019

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This study examines vegetable producers’ market participation and sales volume using cross-sectional data obtained from 385 randomly and proportionately sampled households from West Shewa zone, Oromia region of Ethiopia. Heckman two-step procedure was used to analyse the determinants of participation in vegetables markets and volume of sales during the study period. Probit model shows that education level, distance to nearest market, access to irrigation, use of pesticide and participation in any civic organization significantly affect market participation decision. Further, results from ordinary least squares regression show that sex of household head, land size, distance to farmer training centre, access to irrigation, use of pesticide and participation in civic organization significantly affect the level of market participation of the farm households in vegetable markets. The findings imply that support for female households, improving adult based education, participation in civic organization, infrastructure, access to irrigation and improved inputs are a means to increase vegetable production market participation and sales volume in West Shewa, Ethiopia.

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confidence: 99%

Smallholder Farmers’ Decision to Participate in Vegetable Marketing and the Volume of Sales in West Shewa Zone of Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia

Rikitu¹,

Emana²,

Haji³

et al. 2019

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“…In India, while the market infrastructure is developed and organized for food grains, the markets for NDPFs are fragmented (Chittora et al, 2017;Nandakumar et al, 2010). Formal agricultural market infrastructure is positively correlated with the consumption of fruits and vegetables (Choudhury et al, 2018) while similar studies from India on animal source foods are not available.…”

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Strengthening agriculture-nutrition linkages to improve consumption of nutrient-dense perishable foods in India - existing evidence and way forward

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The triple burden of malnutrition in India is largely contributed by poor quality diets lacking adequate intake of nutrient dense perishable foods (NDPFs) - milk, eggs, fruits and vegetables. This is intriguing because India is one of the largest producers of NDPFs. This review examines possible reasons for this disparity. Poor post-harvest infrastructure, price volatility, unorganized supply chains, long-standing government policies favouring cereals and increasing consumer preference of convenience foods are identified as major reasons for the low intake of NDPFs. While nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions appear promising to improve intakes of NDPF, stronger evidence is needed to scale up these interventions.

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