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

[email protected]