The study aimed at analyzing the structure, conduct and performance of fish market in Lake Zeway, Central part of Ethiopia. A total of 24 traders from 6 markets were selected for the study purposively. Data analysis was carried out using descriptive statistics, for Structure, Conduct and Performance (SCP) approach. According to the results, there were five kinds of fish marketing chains in the ...

The authors gratefully acknowledge without any implication helpful comments and suggestions provided by Warren E. Johnston, Alex F. McCalla, Daniel Sumner, and Colin Carter and support provided by the Giannini Foundation. The scope of marketing as defi ned in this study includes work related to the markets for farm commodities, marketing institutions, and the individual and collective actions o...

Editorial PrEfacE The growing use of new generation, mobile-based, information and communication technologies (ICT) has expanded opportunities for food and agricultural marketing and rural financial service delivery among the smallholder farming community in Sub-Saharan Africa. Smallholder farmers in developing countries have struggled for many years under difficult conditions of poor access to...

This study was conducted in district Gilgit during 2007. Forty-nine cherry producers, twenty-five wholesalers and thirty retailers were interviewed. The study was focused to identify the agencies involved and the channels used in the marketing of cherry and also to calculate the gross marketing margins and price spread of all the intermediaries involved in various marketing channels. Four marke...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the pattern salak pondoh marketing channels, margins, farmer profit sharing, efficiency, factors that influence analysis and between with efficiency standards. choice location was determined purposively (purposive sampling). Sampling respondents using simple random sampling method in which researcher selects sample by giving equal opportunity all membe...

rice production in most of asian countries has been increased more rapidly than population and this has been led to increase in supply and proportionately decrease in the real price of rice in world and domestic markets. furthermore, together with growth in production and national gross income of the country per-capita income has been increased and also demand for rice at national and internati...

Major investments in infrastructure rehabilitation have been undertaken by govemments, development banks and donors in developing countries in recent decades. In Sub-Saharan Africa road deterioration is perceived to be one ofthe main causes for the limited supply response after price liberalization in agricultural markets. Studies of the quantitative effects on marketing margins are rare. This ...