Improving Smallholder Access to Wholesale and Auction Markets

The main problems of Sesame, Groundnut, and Sorghum on the targeted states of this study, are manifested in variability of production and marketing due to dependence on amount and distribution of rainfall, shattering variety associated with manual harvesting technology, changes in domestic and external prices, high marketing costs, partly because of poor infrastructure and partly related to the prevailing market structure, and market distortion. Tthe purpose of this study was to assess the economic factors that had an effect on the performance of Sesame, Groundnut, and Sorghum production, marketing of the four states. The specific objectives of the study were to assess the socio-economic factors of producers and traders, estimate the gross margin revenue of the producers, and market margins cost, and correlation analysis regarding the gross margin of these crops. Smallholder and family farming agriculture remain to be the key and leading sector in overall economic development of many developing countries in the world (Quan, 2011).