Structure and performance of vegetable marketing in East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia

Analysis of marketing performance of vegetable plays an important role in an ongoing or future market development plan. The study primarily examines market structure of major actors and assessing the market performance for key vegetable marketing actors and channels by quantifying costs and profit m...

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Autores principales: Hailegiorgis, D.S., Hagos, Fitsum
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78527
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description Analysis of marketing performance of vegetable plays an important role in an ongoing or future market development plan. The study primarily examines market structure of major actors and assessing the market performance for key vegetable marketing actors and channels by quantifying costs and profit margins. The data was generated by household survey using pre-tested structured questionnaires. This was supplemented by secondary data collected from different published and unpublished sources. The study result shows that the total gross marketing margin was 30% with producer participation margin of 70% implying higher marketing margin of smallholder producers. The market intermediaries incurred different marketing costs such as costs of packing, sorting, transportation, loading and unloading. Central wholesalers obtain relatively highest profit in channel numbered II and III, which amounted to Birr 204,827 and 58,675, respectively. The study result signifies that the first four largest volumes of vegetable purchased by first four big traders (CR4) constitute 50% of market share, which indicates the market structure for vegetable is strongly oligopolistic. OLS regression results also revealed that there are economies of scale for wholesalers at Meki market, which clearly indicates the presence of barrier to entry/exit for wholesalers in the market. Policy implications drawn from the study indicate that changing oligopolistic market structure, capacitating unions to supply inputs and outputs and supporting actors involved in local vegetable markets.
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spelling CGSpace785272024-05-04T09:08:56Z Structure and performance of vegetable marketing in East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia Hailegiorgis, D.S. Hagos, Fitsum marketing channels wholesale marketing vegetables performance testing wholesale prices profitability retail marketing retail prices agricultural production agricultural prices smallholders farmers consumers trade Analysis of marketing performance of vegetable plays an important role in an ongoing or future market development plan. The study primarily examines market structure of major actors and assessing the market performance for key vegetable marketing actors and channels by quantifying costs and profit margins. The data was generated by household survey using pre-tested structured questionnaires. This was supplemented by secondary data collected from different published and unpublished sources. The study result shows that the total gross marketing margin was 30% with producer participation margin of 70% implying higher marketing margin of smallholder producers. The market intermediaries incurred different marketing costs such as costs of packing, sorting, transportation, loading and unloading. Central wholesalers obtain relatively highest profit in channel numbered II and III, which amounted to Birr 204,827 and 58,675, respectively. The study result signifies that the first four largest volumes of vegetable purchased by first four big traders (CR4) constitute 50% of market share, which indicates the market structure for vegetable is strongly oligopolistic. OLS regression results also revealed that there are economies of scale for wholesalers at Meki market, which clearly indicates the presence of barrier to entry/exit for wholesalers in the market. Policy implications drawn from the study indicate that changing oligopolistic market structure, capacitating unions to supply inputs and outputs and supporting actors involved in local vegetable markets. 2016 2016-12-28T06:24:48Z 2016-12-28T06:24:48Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78527 en Open Access Hailegiorgis, D. S.; Hagos, Fitsum. 2016. Structure and performance of vegetable marketing in East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. Journal of Marketing and Consumer Research, 26:7-16.
spellingShingle marketing channels
wholesale marketing
vegetables
performance testing
wholesale prices
profitability
retail marketing
retail prices
agricultural production
agricultural prices
smallholders
farmers
consumers
trade
Hailegiorgis, D.S.
Hagos, Fitsum
Structure and performance of vegetable marketing in East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
title Structure and performance of vegetable marketing in East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
title_full Structure and performance of vegetable marketing in East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
title_fullStr Structure and performance of vegetable marketing in East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Structure and performance of vegetable marketing in East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
title_short Structure and performance of vegetable marketing in East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
title_sort structure and performance of vegetable marketing in east shoa zone oromia region ethiopia
topic marketing channels
wholesale marketing
vegetables
performance testing
wholesale prices
profitability
retail marketing
retail prices
agricultural production
agricultural prices
smallholders
farmers
consumers
trade
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/78527
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