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Title: | Structural Patterns in Produce Marketing at Morogoro |
Author: | Mlambiti, M.E. |
Year: | 1977 |
Periodical: | Tanzania Notes and Records |
Volume: | 81 and 82 |
Pages: | 79-98 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | cash crops domestic trade market Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade |
Abstract: | The mountainous areas of Morogoro District have an ideal climate for potentially producing practically every sort of fruit and vegetable in sufficient quantities to meat the demands of the markets of both Morogoro and Dar es Salaam, with a balance for export and/or the demands of other regions. Yet it is observed that the actual supply to the Morogoro market alone is inadequate not counting that of Dar es Salaam. Morogoro Region is capable of satisfying up to sixty percent of the Dar es Salaam market with vegetables as surplus over that required by the local demand, yet occasionally one finds shortages of vegetables and fruit in Morogoro market itself. Why is this so? This study analyzes the behaviour of small producers and the different market situations affecting their decisions as they sell their products. It is hypothesized that vegetable and fruit producers are exploited by the middlemen getting unduly large profit. The study examines the production and the structure of some selected fruit and vegetable marketing machinery and also analyzes the administrative and institutional conditions avaiable to remedy the situation. Ref. |