Vegetables production and marketing: practice and perception of vegetable seed producers and fresh growers in Nepal

Timsina, Krishna Prasad; Shivakoti, Ganesh P.

doi:10.1186/s40066-018-0161-9

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“…The second major problem was lack of storage in case of offseason growers and wholesalers' dominancy in case of seasonal growers. The storage problem observed in off-season is ascribed by the fact that climate in the rainy season do not favor the longer shelf life of tomato but in the winter season, temperature itself favors the longer post-harvest life; the findings is in accordance with Timsina and Shivakoti (2018). Wholesalers' dominancy was seen as the next major problem in off-season but lack of market information was the third major problem in the seasonal tomato production.…”

Section: Problems Of Marketingmentioning

confidence: 64%

Price behavior, marketing and consumption pattern of tomato in selected region of western Nepal

Maharatha

Dahal

Acharya

et al. 2019

Arch. Agric. Environ. Sci.

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Tomato is an important marketable vegetable commodity of Nepal; but, due to involvement of middlemen farmers are receiving low price margin, meanwhile, consumer are compelled to pay higher. Keeping these points in view, an attempt has been made to study price behavior, marketing and consumption pattern of tomato in Western Nepal. Pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire was administered among randomly selected 90 tomato producers and 10 retailers during march-April 2018. Reports from ministry of agricultural development and journal articles were sources of secondary data. The empirical evidences revealed that, farm gate price, retailers' price, and price spread was higher for off-seasonal tomato production while producers share was higher for seasonal production; in addition, price of tomato, for both seasons, was increasing. Market analysis depicted, producer-wholesaler-retailer-consumer was the major market channel involved. Low market price, dominancy of wholesaler in price determination, storage problems (mainly in off-season), and malpractices during post-harvest handling were the major problems of marketing. Overall, our study point out that, addressing the mentioned problems, accessing new markets, checking unscrupulous middlemen, and value addition are crucial for sustainable market development.

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Section: Problems Of Marketingmentioning

confidence: 64%

Price behavior, marketing and consumption pattern of tomato in selected region of western Nepal

Maharatha

Dahal

Acharya

et al. 2019

Arch. Agric. Environ. Sci.

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“…In Nepal, only 50% of the national demand of the vegetable seeds has been met by the domestic production over the last decade. Of total 2,000 t vegetable seeds demand, around 75% of the total domestic demand is accounted by peas, bean, onion, radish, cow pea and okra (KUBK, 2016;Timsina & Shivakoti, 2018;Timsina et al, 2015). Likewise, cauliflower, cabbage, onion, radish and tomato are the top five vegetables in terms of area under cultivation that account for 50% of the total vegetable areas in Nepal (Baral, 2017;KUBK, 2016;Gauchan, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, there are some limitations on the vegetable seed production and marketing in the district. First, seed marketing is not yet well organized in the overall seed system with proper grading, standard packaging and labeling because of inadequate quality control services (Timsina and Shivakoti, 2018;Gauchan, 2015;Joshi, 2015). Secondly, low level of knowledge and capacity at the farm level, low quality seed production, and low seed storage and processing facilities are also the major constraints (UMN, 2015;Adhikari, 2013;DDC, 2012).…”

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Assessment of present status and action plan development of vegetable seed enterprise in Rukum, Nepal

Pun

Poudyal²

2018

J. Agric. Nat. Res.

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Vegetable seed enterprise is a highly potential sub-sector for the economic growth of rural farmers in Nepal. Rukum has been known as the most important district for vegetable seed production since long time because of favorable agro-climatic condition. However, Rukums' sub-sector is facing several limitations including organized production and marketing, technology adoption and entrepreneurship development. This study has been carried out to assess the vegetable seed sub-sector of Rukum and propose action plans accordingly for the sustainable seed enterprise development. The study conducted stakeholder workshop and field survey; consulted district line agencies, seed producers and cooperatives, agro-vets and seed companies, and reviewed previous works. The study found that there were many individual farmers, farmers' groups and cooperatives being involved in vegetable seed production in the district. The role of private sector is emerging rapidly with higher share in the seed marketing. The public sector is still a major player for conducting research; and provision of source seeds, quality assurance and other support services. Strategic efforts and action plans are needed to push the existing traditional seed sub-sector towards commercial venture. Technology adoption for quality seed production, processing and marketing; transformation of the classical seed sub-sector into a competitive and sustainable enterprise; organized and demand led seed production programs; and coordination and participatory approaches among stakeholders in seed value chain activities are highly recommended.

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“…Due to perishable nature of the products and lack of cold chain storage farmers are compelled to sell fresh products at low price market. The promotion of new post-harvest technologies can provide a higher return to the farmers will be easily accepted by the farmers (Timsina and Shivakoti, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Supply chain efficiency of Tomato in Kathmandu valley

Bhandari

Timsina

et al. 2021

J. Agric. Nat. Res.

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Past studies kept attention on the supply side or value chain aspects of tomato but not kept attention to the supply chain efficiency. To measure supply-side efficiencies in tomato sub-sector, this survey research organized an interview schedule with the randomly selected eighty households in Kirtipur, Chandragiri, Changunarayan, and Godawori municipalities of Kathmandu valley during April to June 2018 with semi structured questionnaire. Study estimated NRs 8,26,144/ha as net profit of tomato grown under tunnel was nearly 44% higher compared to open field condition. Further five types of marketing channels prevailed for tomato market were; channel first (producer-retailer-consumer), channel second (producer-wholesaler-retailer-consumer), channel third (produce-cooperative-retailer-consumer), channel fourth (producer-collector-wholesaler-retailer-consumer) and channel fifth (producer-wholesaler-processor-wholesaler-retailer-consumer) but most dominant was the fourth one since 45% of the fresh tomato supplied through it especially to save time and avoid all possible drudgery in the market. The marketing margin per kilogram of tomato was the lowest (NRs.16.55) in the third channel and the highest (NRs. 39.2) in the fifth channel while the highest market efficiency was 1.27 for the third channel. The producer’s share was highest for the third channel (66.33%) and lowest for fifth channel (39.88%). followed by 1st channel (63.72%) and lowest in 5th channel (39.88%). In order to promote a coordinated and most efficient supply chain, the study suggested the most dominant, low marketing margin and highly efficient supply channel for tomato so that tomato producers would get a high share. Rather than a private one, either group marketing or cooperatives are suggested to involve in fresh tomato marketing.

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Vegetables production and marketing: practice and perception of vegetable seed producers and fresh growers in Nepal

Cited by 23 publications

References 8 publications

Price behavior, marketing and consumption pattern of tomato in selected region of western Nepal

Price behavior, marketing and consumption pattern of tomato in selected region of western Nepal

Assessment of present status and action plan development of vegetable seed enterprise in Rukum, Nepal

Supply chain efficiency of Tomato in Kathmandu valley

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