cooperative commodities
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Cooperative Commodities is a business platform for smallholder group production, value addition, marketing and inputs retailing.
Cooperative
Commodities
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Commercial Extension (learning by training) is significant in smallholder cooperative agribusiness because it presents
opportunity to achieve commercial quantity of quality and safe farm commodities that meet market specifications. This is very important in today’s commodity supply chain which smallholder inclusiveness
is highly demanded
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Extension Slides 01
Kano Farmers Council Apex Cooperative Limited
Kano State Nigeria
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Hygienic Sun Drying Tomato
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Reasons for Drying Tomatoes
1) Mass production of fresh tomatoes2) Market glut and lack of processing facility3) Abundant drying resources – sunshine, simple
technology, labour etc
4) Good market for dried tomato during rain season5) Fresh tomato scarcity during rain season6) Food Security – improved nutrition and health7) Improves farmer income in market glut period
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Fresh Tomato price
J F M A M J J A S O N D Dry Season Rain Season Kauda tomato production & stocking period Kauda usage period
Fresh tomato supply
Kauda tomato production
Kauda Tomato demand
Kauda Tomato Annual trend
Kauda tomato price
(Source: FNVC Kano)
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Farm or market Weigh tomatoes
Step [1]Fresh tomatoes sourcing
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Step [2]Pre-cleaning
Pick out injured, rotten and unripe tomatoes Sort tomatoes by size
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Step [3]Wash sorted tomatoes with clean water
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Step [4]Cut cleaned tomatoes into halves or quarters
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Step [5]Place tomato slides face-up on neat drying net
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Step [6]put drying net with tomato cuts into the dryer and leave under sun for four days
The Dryer
Local Fabrication, Simple Technique, Eco Friendly, Hygienic, Cost Effective, Long Life, Very Effective Natural Drying
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Naturally dried, hygienic and affordable
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Controlled Contamination
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Step [7]Make heaps of dried tomato in the dryer
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Step [8]remove off-type dried tomato from the lot
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Step [9]Weigh dried and sorted tomato
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Step [10]Pack dried tomato in paper carton or plastic
film
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Calculations
Step [11]
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Basic Data – April 2013
Average wt of tomato basket 57kg
Cost of basket of tomato (k/Gafan mkt) N700 April
Cost of kilogram tomato N12.30
Weight of sorted and cleaned tomato for drying 30 kg
Cost of kilogram cleaned tomato for drying N369 A =cost of RM
Cost of pre-cleaning, sorting, cutting & drying(30kg) of fresh tomato
N157.90 B =processing cost
Drying period 4 days
Wt of dried tomato (Kauda) 1.50 kg 1.875 kwano
Ratio of fresh to dried tomato (important) 30 kg : 1.5 kg 20:1
Sorting to remove semi dried, discoloured etc
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Basic Data contd.
Final weight of sorted Kauda tomato
Cost of packaging material, label print and sealing 100 C =Packaging cost
Total cost production = A+B+C
Cost of RM + Cost of processing + Cost of packaging
N626.9 D
Cost of 1 mudu (0.8kg) Kauda tomato in rain season N750 Rimi market in Kano municipal June/July2013
Market value of dried tomato N1,406.25 K
Profit margin = K – D N779.35 124%
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Fresh Tomatoes Handling
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Thank You for viewing
Rabiu Auwalu YakasaiOperations ManagerKano Farmers Council