Ghana's tomato market

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dc.creatorMinistry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana
dc.creatorInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.creatorAmewu, Sena
dc.creatorArhin, Eunice
dc.creatorDanso, Jane
dc.creatorDoughan, Roland Ato
dc.creatorNafrah, Christiana
dc.creatorOwusu, Ivy
dc.creatorPauw, Karl
dc.date2020-03-01
dc.date2024-05-22T12:16:55Z
dc.date2024-05-22T12:16:55Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:43:15Z
dc.descriptionTomatoes are a key component in the diets of Ghanaian households. Approximately 440,000 tons of tomato are consumed annually, equivalent to 40 percent of household vegetable expenditure (Van Asselt et al. 2018). Despite government support for the sector, national production has not increased much in the last decade, resulting in domestic supply falling far short of demand. While UN Comtrade (2019) trade statistics for 2007 to 2017 indicate that the country imported only around 8,000 tons of tomato annually, mainly from neighboring Burkina Faso, Van Asselt et al. (2018) put this figure at closer to 100,000 tons or one-quarter of domestic supply. Evidently, large quantities of tomato enter the country informally, making it difficult to estimate actual supply and demand patterns and devise appropriate marketing policies. The perishability of tomato is a major challenge and imparts significant risk on producers and traders. As such, post-harvest handling, transport, storage, and processing losses have been estimated at between 20 and 65 percent of production (Vowotor et al. 2012).
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143795
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/112728
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133698
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133697
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133696
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/1032568216
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133661
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133201
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). 2020. Ghana's tomato market. MoFA-IFPRI Market Brief 3. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133694.
dc.subjectfood production
dc.subjectdomestic trade
dc.subjectcapacity development
dc.subjecttomatoes
dc.subjectmarkets
dc.subjecttrade
dc.subjectfood consumption
dc.subjectfood prices
dc.subjectinternational trade
dc.titleGhana's tomato market
dc.typeBrief

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