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Supply Chain Analysis of Major Vegetables Produced in Hilly and Coastal Regions of Bangladesh

M. S. Hoq
Scientific officer, Agricultural Economics Division, BARI, Gazipur

M. A. Matin
Chief Scientific officer, Agricultural Economics Division, BARI, Gazipur

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

The study was conducted in hilly and coastal region of Bangladesh for understanding the input distribution system, profitability of different production practices, supply chain and marketing system and different drawbacks of production and marketing of selected vegetables. The study area covered three hill districts namely; Rangamati, Khagrachari and Bndarban and three coastal districts namely; Patuakhali, Satkhira and Cox’s bazar where vegetables production is very limited due to different stress. Brinjal and yard long bean were selected from hilly areas and bittergourd and cucumber were selected from coastal areas. The study was conducted during the period of 2017-2018. Primary data were collected through face to face interview and secondary data were collected from different published sources. Multistage simple random sampling technique was used and total sample size was 1140 for the study. The study revealed that vegetables production and marketing both for farmers and traders were found profitable. Three production techniques were found in both regions such as; homestead, plain land and Jhum cultivation in the hilly areas and plain land, sorjon method and gher based cultivation in coastal area. The net return of brinjal and yard long bean in plain land cultivation was Tk. 1, 92,265/ ha and Tk.82362/ha respectively in hilly region and the BCR was found 1.88 and 1.53 respectively. The net return of Jhum cultivation was found Tk.70,113/ha and the BCR was found 2.02. On the other hand, the net return of bittergourd and cucumber was Tk. 2,24,530/ ha and Tk. 1,57,893/ha and the BCR was found 2.08 and 1.82 respectively in plain land of coastal area. The profitability of sorjon cultivation and gher based agriculture system was Tk. 91023/ha and Tk. 1,29,115/ha respectively and the BCR was 1.37 and 1.76 respectively. Five supply chains of vegetables were identified in hilly area, of which four chains were dominant and 93.25% vegetables moved by those chains. On the other hand, four supply chains were identified in coastal areas of which three chains were dominant by which 94.43% vegetables moved from producer to consumer. raining programme on modern technology and post-harvest handling, improvement of transportation and communication system, development of salt tolerant variety and wider expansion of existing modern technology in coastal region and linking farmers with the extension personnel and researcher were the major recommendation of this study.

Keywords: Vegetables, Hilly regions, Coastal Region, Brinjal, Bittergourd, Jhum cultivation, BCR

Location: Bandarban, Khagrachari, Rangamati, Cox’s bazar, Patuakhali and Satkhira districts of Bangladesh

Start Date: 00-00-2017

End Date: 00-00-2018

Program Area: Crop-Soil-Water Management

Commodity: Vegetables

Objectives:

i. To analyze input supply, production system and profitability of major vegetables in hilly and coastal region

ii. To examine the existing market, marketing system and supply chain of selected vegetables in those areas

iii. To identify the constraints to linkage between local market and urban market of selected vegetables.

iv. To identify the production and marketing drawbacks and suggest some policy recommendations for improving the vegetables supply chain.

Methodology:

Research methodology is an arrangement of the essential conditions for collection and analysis of data in a form that aims to combine relevance to research purpose. The reliability of research depends on the proper methodology used in the study. This chapter discussed the adopted methodology for the study. The study was implemented at different unfavorable ecosystem in Bangladesh. Two unfavorable situations were considered viz; hilly and costal region of Bangladesh. Three districts were selected from hilly areas such as; Bandarban, Khagrachari and Rangamati and three districts were selected from coastal areas such as; Cox’s bazar, Patuakhali and Satkhira. Project locations were selected based on intensive growing areas of the selected vegetables on the basis of BBS data and expert’s opinion. Four important vegetables, taking two from hilly area and another two from coastal area were selected for the study. The selected vegetables were brinjal and yard long bean from hilly region and bittergourd and cucumber from coastal region of Bangladesh. The vegetables were selected on the basis of intensively and stressfully growing in that unfavorable ecosystem. The vegetables were selected which are mostly fitted for those location and its production technology and supply chain were taken into consideration. The selections of vegetable were finalized after pre-test. The intended stakeholders were vegetable growers and vegetable traders (i.e. Bepari, Arathdar, Retailers). Multistage simple random sampling techniques were adopted for selecting the reasonable numbers of stakeholders involved in vegetable supply chain. Multi-stage sampling technique was followed for location selection and simple random sampling was used for sample respondent selection. Primary data were collected from the selected respondents through face to face interview method. Scientific officers/Scientific Assistants were responsible for data collection. They collected data from selected farmers and traders with the supervision of principal investigator.

Source of Information: SPGR Sub-Project Completion Report (PCR), February 2020

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Achievement/Findings:

It was revealed from the study that vegetables production and marketing both for farmers and traders level were found profitable in the both locations. Due to poor knowledge and lack of modern technology they get poor production but they get satisfactory price due to high local demand and deficit of vegetables production in the study areas. There were lots of imperfections found in the vegetables marketing system in the hilly and coastal regions. High price gap was found between producers and consumers level due to inefficient marketing system. Different types of production stress and lack of appropriate technology they were reluctant to vegetables cultivation. But recently farmers were getting interest for vegetables production due to highly profitable of vegetables cultivation in those areas. Nevertheless, both farmers and traders encountered various problems during marketing of vegetables. In the recent years, some of the technologies found in coastal areas such as sorjon cultivation and gher based agriculture which is very promising and encouraging by the farmers at farm level. Whatever technologies so far developed by BARI now need to be disseminated for obtaining higher yield. Extension personnel also have to play vital role in dissemination of the modern technology in those unfavourable ecosystems. In this regard, some recommendations were made for sustainable vegetables production and adopting of new technology at hilly and coastal region in future.

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