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    Exploring the profitability of improved storage technologies and their potential impacts on food security and income of smallholder farm households in Tanzania

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    2019-05-20
    Author
    Kotu, B.H
    Abass, A.B.
    Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard
    Mbwambo, H.
    Bekunda, Mateete A.
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    This study assesses the profitability of selected improved grain storage technologies and the potential impact of their adoption on food security and income of smallholder maize producers in Tanzania. We used on-farm experiment data, time series maize price data, and household survey data to address the objectives. For the improved technologies, we considered Purdue Improved Crop Storage (PICS) bags, metallic silos of different sizes, and polypropylene (PP) bags treated with Actellic Super®. We compared them with PP bags without insecticide treatment as the control. Results show that PICS bags and PP bags plus Actellic Super are profitable in all locations and not significantly different. While the feasible period varies by location, profit is most likely negative if farmers sell their maize in the first two months after harvest and in the last two months before the next harvest. There are mixed results with regards to the profitability of metallic silos; bigger silos are profitable for farmers who have economies of scale to use them while smaller ones are profitable only within the context of higher grain price and bigger seasonal price gap. The results also show that PICS bags (or PP bags plus Actellic Super) are useful to address food security and income objectives among poor rural households whereas metallic silos with bigger storage capacity can increase the income of those farmers who have bigger surplus grain to sale.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspr.2019.04.003
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/5855
    Non-IITA Authors ORCID
    Bekele Hundie Kotuhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5788-6461
    Adebayo Abasshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-3608
    Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledonhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2530-6554
    Mateete Bekundahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7297-9383
    Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspr.2019.04.003
    Research Themes
    NUTRITION & HUMAN HEALTH; SOCIAL SCIENCE & AGRICUSINESS
    IITA Subjects
    Handling, Transport, Storage And Protection Of Agricultural Products; Post-Harvesting Technology; Smallholder Farmers; Socioeconomy
    Agrovoc Terms
    Maize; Postharvest Technology
    Regions
    Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa
    Countries
    Tanzania
    Journals
    Journal of Stored Products Research
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