August 24, 2005
AUTHOR:
Syed Tamjid ur Rahman
Mahmud Hossain
OVERVIEW:
The tomato subsector plays an important role in the overall employment and income generation of the
poor farm communities, in the Eastern Region of Afghanistan. The subsector has the potential to enter into the larger market economy, and is emerging as potentially a major income generator. This will be realized, provided the subsector is guided to conform to quality standards and employ efficient technologies for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs of the market. It was argued that the local producers are not adequately meeting the needs of the market. The need for creating competitive advantage through value addition, backward and forward linkage with the wider markets and the need for increased capacity building of the producers and service providers was rationalized as the working strategy. Taking this framework, the study focused on viewing the competitive advantage of the subsector through value addition. This was done through interviews with relevant value chain members, stakeholders, the market actors and the service providers. During the process the central question was:
Under which alternative market systems (local versus export, traditional versus more modern technologies) should tomato value chain members operate to increase value-addition and increase competitive advantage?
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