decisive for profitable returns. Tomato supply chain in Chitwan district of Nepal, due to disorganized marketing channel, was …. =0.0085 US$) respectively, indicating that tomato is a profitable enterprise. Value chain analysis was performed by … formulating the policies regarding marketing channel, determining floor and ceiling price for tomato, and encourage the actors to …

In Ghana, the agricultural sector in general and the tomato sector in particular have not met their potential. In the … tomato sector, production seasonality, the dominance of rainfed agriculture, high perishability of the fruits combined with … unable to sell their tomatoes which are consequently left to rot in their fields. The tomato value chain in Ghana is …

Processing of highly perishable non-storable crops, such as tomato, is typically promoted for two reasons: as a way of … chain through a value-added process. For Ghana, improving domestic tomato processing would also reduce the country …'s dependence on imported tomato paste and so improve foreign exchange reserves, as well as provide employment opportunities and …

This paper estimates the competitiveness and determinants of tomato farms under irrigated and rainfed technologies from … four ecological zones in Ghana. Adopting the PAM model on a three-year panel data from 698 tomato farmers, comprising 206 … irrigated and 492 rainfed farmers, the paper provides evidence that tomato farms under the two technologies are uncompetitive at …