scholarly journals An Analysis of the Vegetables Supply Chain in Swaziland

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bongiwe G. Xaba ◽  
Micah B. Masuku
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Total Consumption ◽  
Vegetable Farmers ◽  
Fresh Vegetables ◽  
Per Capita

<em></em><p>The total consumption of fresh vegetables in Swaziland is estimated around 40,000 tonnes per year and this translate into 40 kg per capita consumption per year. Individuals who are not economically challenged consume above the annual per capita of 40 kg in contrast to a poor individuals living in rural areas, who consume less than the per capita vegetables. The study sought to describe the performance of vegetable vegetables supply chain in Swaziland. A descriptive research design was used in the study and data were collected using personal interviews from 100 randomly selected vegetable farmers. Data were analysed using market margins and marketing channel analysis to identify existing marketing channels used by vegetable farmers. The revealed marketing channels that producers used to obtain attractive prices and a higher share of the consumer price. The largest producer’s share was obtained through direct sale to consumers. Channels that included restaurants had high total gross margins and low producer’s share of the consumer price. The concern for issues on post-harvest and marketing should form an integral part of policy development and research programmes and also the public and private sectors should facilitate contractual arrangements for vegetables farmers. Commercialising vegetable production should not be overemphasised because it encourages farmers to be market oriented as opposed to production oriented. Farmers need to form cooperatives in order to assist in bargaining of prices within the vegetable supply chain.</p>

scholarly journals Factors Affecting the Choice of Marketing Channel by Vegetable Farmers in Swaziland

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bongiwe G Xaba ◽  
Micah B Masuku
Keyword(s):  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Wholesale Market ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Horticultural Crops ◽  
Vegetable Farmers ◽  
Market Channel

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span><p>Vegetables as a group of horticultural crops are important for their contribution as an income support to a large proportion of the rural households. However, enhancing vegetable farmers to reach markets and actively engage in the markets is a key challenge influencing vegetable production in Swaziland. The perishable nature of vegetables necessitates effective marketing channels. The aim of this paper was to investigate factors affecting farmers’ choice of marketing channels using survey data gathered during the 2011 production season. Data were collected from 100 randomly selected vegetable farmers. Descriptive and multinomial logistic regression analyses were used. The results indicated that age of the farmer, quantity of baby corn produced and level of education were significant predictors of the choice to sell vegetables to NAMBoard market channel instead of selling to other-wholesale market channel. The age of the farmer, distance from production area to market, membership in farmer organization and marketing agreement were significant determinants of the choice to use non-wholesale market channel over other-wholesale market channel. It is therefore important to promote collective action as an institutional vehicle for linking farmers to agribusiness supply chains. Farmers should establish networks since they aid in sharing knowledge, farmers can improve produce grades as required by market.</p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><br /></span>

scholarly journals Supply Chain of Vegetable Commodities in Boyolali, Central Java

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Aflit Nuryulia Praswati
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Distribution Channel ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Price Increases ◽  
Vegetable Farmers ◽  
Traditional Market

Vegetables are an important commodity for a country. Vegetable prices contribute to the inflation rate in some regions of Indonesia. Inflation and deflation are inseparable from the type of food and vegetable groups because the majority of the population have jobs as vegetable farmers. SeloBoyolali is a vegetable producing area, but currently it can not meet the needs of its own region. Supply of vegetables began to decrease due to pests and vegetable turnover into tobacco. If the delivery of vegetables is hampered there will be a scarcity of vegetables that result in price increases. The length of the distribution channel has a negative impact, namely the price of commodities set by the middlemen or traders who distribute vegetables from the producers. So sometimes local farmers do not have bargaining power on the price determination of vegetables. This study aims to analyze the pattern of price formation and vegetable distribution in Boyolali. The analytical framework used in this research is supply chain management framework. The method used in this research is quantitative and qualitative. Respondents from this study were 101 people. Farmers in the slopes of Mount Merapi and Merbabu such as the villages of Selo, Cepogo, Ampel, and Musuk. These villages became the basis of vegetable production sufficient for Boyolali area and became the main supplier of vegetables in Soloraya and Yogyakarta. Modern channels are traders who channel the modern market such as supermarkets, supermarkets and other modern shops. In this channel, only goods that have the best quality and the price can be 2-5 times the price in the traditional market. Traditional channels are traders who are in the traditional market, in this channel the incoming goods are not limited and all kinds of goods can enter with all the existing quality from best to worst mixed here. However, the prices that apply here are also not as high as the modern market. Mixed channels are widely used by middlemen or farmers. Here the goods that have good quality are separated and then sold to the modern market in hopes of getting more profit. While the goods with the second quality go to the traditional distribution channels are cheaper. At this level the price of vegetables is strongly influenced by the quality of vegetables, the amount of vegetable availability and the amount of vegetable demand itself.

scholarly journals KINERJA DAN EFISIENSI RANTAI PASOK (SUPPLY CHAIN) NANAS DI DESA TANGKIT BARU KECAMATAN SUNGAI GELAM KABUPATEN MUARO JAMBI

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Mirawati Yanita ◽  
Ira Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Cost Ratio ◽  
Supply Chain Performance ◽  
Margin Distribution ◽  
Marketing Efficiency ◽  
Total Profit

<div>This study aimed to analyze the pineapple supply chain's performance and efficiency in Tangkit Baru Village, Sungai Gelam District, Muaro Jambi Regency. The data used in the study was primary data, obtained from direct interviews using questionnaires to 76 respondents consisting of 56 farmers, and 20 marketing agencies involved in pineapple marketing in Tangkit Baru Village from October to December 2019. Pineapple supply chain performance is measured based on marketing efficiency using marketing margin criteria, farmer's share, and profit-to-cost marketing ratio. The results showed that there are five pineapple marketing channels in Tangkit Baru Village that involve marketing actors ranging from farmers, large inter-city traders, village collectors, out-of-pick-up merchants, retailers and consumers. Based on the analysis of marketing efficiency, the marketing channel that has the smallest total margin distribution, the largest farmer share is 100 percent and the total profit-to-cost ratio of 32.2 percent is the 5 marketing channel, so channel 5 is the most efficient marketing channel.</div>

A Study of Production and Marketing of Potato in Kurukshetra District of Haryana

2020 ◽  
pp. 307-312
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Solanum Tuberosum L ◽  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Important Food ◽  
Surplus Labour ◽  
Potato Crops ◽  
Vegetable Cultivation

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the most important food crop of the world which has always been the poor mans’ crop. Potato is cultivated in the country for the last more than 300 years. The present study was conducted in Kurukshetra district of Haryana. The results revealed that the estimated total cost, gross return, net return, and B:C ratio of potato cultivation was `179449, 274944, 95495 and 1:1.53 per hectare, respectively. The value of the B: C ratio was found to be more than one which indicated that the cultivation of potato crops was economically profitable. The cultivation of potato crops also provided opportunities for employment of family and surplus labour in rural areas. State Government initiated a scheme Bhavantar Bharpayee Yojana (BBY) to protect vegetable growers for the sustainability of vegetable cultivation. There was seasonal variation in potato prices dut to its semi-perishable nature and post-harvest sales. The direct marketing channel of potato (Channel-IV)was found to be most profitable among all other marketing channels due to the non-existence of intermediaries between the producer and the ultimate consumer. Channel-IV was found to be most efficient among all the channels. Due to perishable nature of potato, there is a need for adequate storage facilities so that farmers get remunerative prices as well as meet the consumers’ demand through the year.

Supply Chains, Channel Structures and Networks

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Fill ◽  
Scot McKee
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
End User ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Marketing Systems ◽  
Structural Configurations ◽  
Network Approaches ◽  
Channel Structures

This chapter deals with two main elements. The first concerns the management of the logistical and physical flow of goods from producers to end user customers. This is referred to as ‘supply chain management’. The second element concerns the management of the marketing channels. These are structural configurations organisations use to add value and which enable end users to access finished goods (and services) in the most convenient way. Attention is given to conventional marketing channel structures, vertical marketing systems and network approaches to interorganisational channel structures.

Factors influencing vegetable cooperatives’ selection of marketing channels in Beijing

2019 ◽  
Vol 121 (7) ◽  
pp. 1655-1668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenchi Zhang ◽  
Jieqiong Wang ◽  
Biao Zhang ◽  
Junqi Ding ◽  
Zetian Fu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose The selection of marketing channels by vegetable producers directly affects the income of producers and is important for the maintenance of a stable supply of vegetables and food control. The purpose of this paper is threefold: to investigate the cooperative selection of vegetable marketing channels; to identify the factors that influence the selection of marketing channels by professional vegetable cooperatives by comparing emerging and traditional circulation modes; and to solve the problems related to vegetable circulation channels in Beijing. Design/methodology/approach A total of 187 valid questionnaires were collected from seven main vegetable production districts in Beijing urban areas from September to December 2017, with a response rate of 89 percent. Binary logistic regression was used for analysis in this study. Findings Results revealed that the cooperatives mainly selected large wholesalers, wholesale markets, supermarkets and electronic commerce as their marketing channels for their vegetables. Estimation results showed that among the 18 influencing factors in the four categories, the educational level of the person in charge and some other factors significantly influence the selection of these four distribution channels by the cooperatives. Research limitations/implications Due to the lack of time and energy, this paper does not analyze the factors influencing a cooperative’s choice of different e-commerce platforms. If this problem can be solved, it will definitely promote the development of e-commerce in rural areas. Originality/value The results obtained in the present study and their implications could help policy makers establish a science-based and reasonable policy to encourage vegetable producers to participate in the new circulation modes of vegetables in Beijing and ensure their income in the vegetable supply chain. This study suggests methods to improve the vegetable sector in other cities facing similar issues.

scholarly journals Marketing Efficiency In Rice Commodity Supply Chain Management In Kalukku District, West Sulawesi Province

2021 ◽  
Vol 921 (1) ◽  
pp. 012089
Author(s):  
S A Said ◽  
R Darma ◽  
A N Tenriawaru
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Marketing Efficiency ◽  
Farmer Groups

Abstract The market performance measure that is often used is efficiency in marketing. Marketing efficiency can be improved by applying the concept of supply chain management in agriculture. This study aims to analyze the efficiency of marketing in rice supply chain management. The research was conducted in August 2018 in Kalukku District, Mamuju Regency. The sampling method was carried out by purposive sampling, obtained as many as 8 farmers with the criteria of owner or confinement farmers who have farming experience and several farmers who serve as heads and members of farmer groups, where information on farmers, it is known that the flow of products that involve other marketing agencies is also used. respondents in this study were determined by snowball sampling. Data analysis used is marketing efficiency analysis. The results showed that there were 3 rice marketing channels in Kalukku District, Mamuju Regency. The marketing channel has been efficient, where in supply chain channel 1 with an efficiency level of 12.9%, on marketing channel 2 with an efficiency level of 12.2%, and marketing channel 3 with an efficiency level of 13.2%.

scholarly journals ANALISIS RANTAI PASOK BUNGA SEDAP MALAM (Polianthes tuberosa) DI KECAMATAN AMBARAWA

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Afif Nur Zahidah ◽  
W. Roessali ◽  
A. Setiadi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Supply Chain Performance ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Marketing Efficiency ◽  
Supply Chain Structure ◽  
Marketing Agency

The purpose of this research is to find out the description of performance of the supply chain and analyze the marketing channels for Polianthes tuberosa based on margin calculation and marketing efficiency. The research method used was a survey. Respondents consisted of farmers and actors at the flower marketing agency as well as night. Polianthes tuberosa farmers in Baran Village who were respondents as many as 26 and the number of samples of marketing institutions as many as 30 people consisting of market traders, florists and consumers. The data analysis method used is descriptive qualitative and quantitative based on the supply chain development method in the Asian Productivity Organization (APO). The results of the study show that supply chain performance can be said to be quite good, marked by the fulfillment of demand for Polianthes tuberosa interest to consumers. Clear and directed supply chain goals, good supply chain structure, good supply chain management, sufficient and adequate resources and overall good supply chain performance. There are 3 marketing channels that are already efficient with the value of farmer share in marketing channel I that is 50.19%, marketing channel II which is 50.19% and marketing channel III which is 77.21%.

scholarly journals Comparison of Farm Production and Marketing Cost and Benefit Among Selected Vegetable Pockets in Nepal

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 10-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepak Mani Pokhrel
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Potential Benefit ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Price Formation ◽  
Vegetable Production ◽  
Farm Production ◽  
Agriculture And Environment ◽  
Local Farmers

In vein of exploring vegetable production and marketing related problems that could have hindered farmers from getting potential benefit, the study evaluates farm performances in selective vegetable pockets of Kabhrepalanchok, Sindhupalchok and Kaski districts. It describes farm strategies on pre and post harvest crop management, explores marketing channels and mechanisms of commodity transfer and price formation and assesses farm benefits of selective crops. Study method is based on exploration of processes and costs of production and marketing following observations and short interviews with local farmers in small groups, local traders in market centers and local informants. Marketing channels are explored, farm profits and shares on wholesale prices explained through cost-benefit assessments and prospects of vegetable production and marketing described.Key words: Cost-benefit; Marketing-channel; Nepal; Price-share; Production-marketing system; Vegetable pockets; MountainThe Journal of AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT Vol. 11, 2010Page: 10-25Uploaded Date: 15 September, 2010

scholarly journals Penentuan Saluran Pemasaran terhadap Tingkat Harga pada Rantai Pasok Kedelai (Glycine maxL.) Merr.) di Kabupaten Grobogan Provinsi Jawa Tengah

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 443
Author(s):  
Novita Erma Kristanti ◽  
Iqbal Saimima Almuntaha
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sampling Methods ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Marketing Channel ◽  
Marketing Channels ◽  
Price Transmission ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Effective Demand ◽  
Elasticity Of Demand ◽  
Convenience Sampling

This research aimed to measure price elasticity of demand soybean with the activity of supply and demand; measuring the concentration ratio (Cr) on a tier that has soybean activities trade system and provides review of marketing channels are considered the most efficient with effective demand in related supply chain. The method of data collection with the technique of convenience sampling and snowball sampling. Methods of sampling was done through indepth interview in supply chain. By calculating its price transmission elasticity on the soybean marketing channels, the ratio of concentration in tier collectors and traders. The result of the calculation of the price transmission elasticity values obtained the highest value on channel 4 with the marketing value 2,509. The average ratio of the concentration of the middleman 0,8501, and tier 0,94554 merchant. So these values indicate that the most efficient marketing channel with an effective demand is marketing channel 4 is composed of farmers, farmers group, and tofu/tempeh industries. AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk melakukan penentuan perilaku pasar terhadap tingkat harga kedelai di wilayah Grobogan. Dalam penentuan perilaku pasar tersebut perlu diketahui nilai tingkat harga dengan perhitungan elastisitas permintaan terkait harga dengan aktivitas supply dan demand kedelai; mengukur nilai konsentrasi rasio (Kr) pada tier yang memiliki aktivitas tata niaga kedelai yang paling sering; dan memberikan ulasan saluran pemasaran yang dinilai paling efisien dengan permintaan yang efektif terkait rantai pasok. Metode pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan teknik convinience sampling dan snowball sampling melalui indepth interview kepada pelaku rantai pasok (supply chain) dan dinas terkait. Dengan menghitung nilai elastisitas transmisi harga (Et) pada saluran pemasaran kedelai, rasio konsentrasi pada tier pengepul dan pedagang, nilai elastisitas transmisi harga diperoleh nilai tertinggi pada saluran pemasaran 4 dengan nilai 2,509. Konsentrasi rasio rata-rata pengepul 0,8501, dan tier pedagang 0,94554. Nilai tersebut menunjukkan bahwa perilaku pasar yang paling efektif menggunakan saluran pemasaran yang paling efisien dengan permintaan yang efektif yaitu saluran pemasaran 4 yang terdiri dari petani, kelompok tani, dan pengrajin tahu/tempe.

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