Analysis of postharvest handling practices for lakatan bananas among traders in selected markets in Calamba, Laguna, 2015

Date

5-2016

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics

College

College of Economics and Management (CEM)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Julieta A. Delos Reyes

Abstract

The study analyzed the postharvest handling practices among Lakatan banana traders in Calamba City, Laguna. Primary data were obtained from 32 randomly and accidentally chosen traders consisting of 2 wholesalers, 9 wholesaler-retailers and 21 retailers using a pre-tested questionnaire. Descriptive analysis was used to describe the postharvest practices adopted by the traders, and the value of quantity and quality losses. Also, the profitability of each postharvest practice was determined using the cost and returns analysis and the partial budget analysis. For the adoption of postharvest practices, results showed that traders adopted cleaning, ripening sorting, packaging and storing. However, not all of these practices were performed by every trader. Only 50 percent of the wholesalers, 33 percent of wholesaler-retailer and none of the retailers practiced cleaning. About 48 percent of the retailers and all of the wholesalers-retailers and wholesalers employed ripening. All the wholesalers and wholesalers and wholesaler-retailers employed sorting while only 90 percent of the retailers did. For packaging, the wholesalers and wholesaler and wholesaler-retailers performed the practice while only 90 percent of the retailers did. Lastly, all the wholesalers and wholesalers-retailers stored their product while only 90 percent of the retailers did. The interviewed traders were grouped by the combination of postharvest practices they adopted and were compared among each other. The results revealed that cleaning, ripening, sorting, packaging and storing (Group 4) for wholesalers showed a lower value of postharvest losses (P5.10) while wholesaler-retailers incurred a higher value (P36.00) in comparison to the adopters of ripening, sorting, packaging and storing (Group 3). For the retailers, the highest value of losses (P161.10) was shown for the non-adopter of any post-harvest practice (Group 1) while the least value of losses (P110.46) came from the adopter of sorting, packaging and storing (Group 2). For the profitability, the cost and returns analysis showed that Group 4 generated a lower net income per 40 kilogram of Lakatan bananas of P258.64 compared to Group 3 (P424.69). This was also applied to the wholesaler-retailers and retailers who generated a higher net income of P867.33 and P346.24 respectively for using Group 3. Furthermore, the partial budget analysis showed that cleaning resulted to negative net profits for every 40 kilogram of Lakatan bananas for both the wholesalers and wholesaler-retailers that amounted to P170.60 and P121.47 respectively. For retailers, Group 2 resulted to an additional net profit of P48.53 in comparison to Group 1 while ripening resulted to a positive net income of P109.57 when compared to Group 2.Therefore, it was recommended that the awareness and knowledge of the traders has to be improved particularly in the adoption of cleaning. On the other hand, ripening should be adopted especially by the retailers because it resulted to a considerably higher net income. There must also be a re-assessment of the pricing by the readers in order to account the losses incurred in marketing the commodity.

Language

English

Location

UPLB College of Economics and Management (CEM)

Call Number

LG 993.5 2016 A14 L33

Document Type

Thesis

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