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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

dc.contributor.authorKotu, B.H
dc.contributor.authorAbass, A.B.
dc.contributor.authorHoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard
dc.contributor.authorMbwambo, H.
dc.contributor.authorBekunda, Mateete A.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:33:57Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:33:57Z
dc.date.issued2019-05-20
dc.identifier.citationKotu, B.H., Abass, A.B., Hoeschle-Zeledon,I., Mbwambo, H. and Bekunda, M. 2019. Exploring the profitability of improved storage technologies and their potential impacts on food security and income of smallholder farm households in Tanzania. Journal of Stored Products Research 82, 98-109.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/5855
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States Agency for International Development
dc.description.sponsorshipSwiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
dc.format.extent98-109
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dc.subjectMaize
dc.subjectPostharvest Technology
dc.titleExploring the profitability of improved storage technologies and their potential impacts on food security and income of smallholder farm households in Tanzania
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.crpMaize
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationSokoine University of Agriculture
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEast Africa
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.coverage.countryTanzania
cg.creator.identifierBekele Hundie Kotu: 0000-0001-5788-6461
cg.creator.identifierAdebayo Abass: 0000-0003-1376-3608
cg.creator.identifierIrmgard Hoeschle-Zeledon: 0000-0002-2530-6554
cg.creator.identifierMateete Bekunda: 0000-0001-7297-9383
cg.researchthemeNUTRITION & HUMAN HEALTH
cg.researchthemeSOCIAL SCIENCE & AGRICUSINESS
cg.editionVolume 82
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectHandling, Transport, Storage And Protection Of Agricultural Products
cg.iitasubjectPost-Harvesting Technology
cg.iitasubjectSmallholder Farmers
cg.iitasubjectSocioeconomy
cg.journalJournal of Stored Products Research
cg.howpublishedFormally Published
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
local.dspaceid105576
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.targetaudienceAcademics
cg.targetaudienceCgiar
cg.targetaudienceDevelopment Practitioners
cg.targetaudienceDonors
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspr.2019.04.003


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