Similarly, the number of households engaged in the production and marketing of fruits and vegetables in Tanzania has grown over 18% the years to 2.9 million from 407,827 between 2007 and 2019 (URT, 2012,2021). [...] This brief aims to contribute to this Losses experienced during transportation growing body of literature by examining the extent of Results from the survey indicate that, both the and main reasons for fruits and vegetable losses prevalence and magnitude of loss incurred during experienced by Dar es Salaam traders. [...] The extent of crop loss at this stage is most likely associated with the time and distance travelled from 1 Fruits category includes watermelons, pineapples, and mangoes, the product source to the market, the quality of while vegetables comprise of potatoes and tomatoes. [...] transport infrastructure, the mode of transportation 2 Cumulative loss refers to total estimated loss incurred throughout and or type of containers/packaging used when the marketing process, from the time of stock acquisition to transporting the crops. [...] With only a small number of traders using whilst accounting for the delicate nature of fruits and dedicated storage rooms, over half of them (53%) vegetables in question, can pose greater risk of simply cover their produce on tables or on the ground, damage and crop loss at this stage along the value and close to two out of ten (18%) keep their products chain.
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