Dear friends,

i plan to be buying some farm produce from were they are cheaply found to where they are scarce.that is were the vegetation favours the produce to where the vegetation do not favour.



My question is how do buyers/traders source for farm produce for onward sales where they ar scarce.?

1. Is it that the buyers visit commodity markets of those rural areas of places where they are available on those market days?

2.Or do buyers find agents in those rural areas to buy for them?and what are the arrangement is such situations.

For those of us here who trade on farm produce as describe aboved how do you source for sustainable supply

two things involved

(1)..you either visit the rural commodity market on the market day and make tje purchse or

(2)..you have a agent that can handle every sourcing and procurement for you...

but no matter what you decide always put in mine that most of commodities market due have union and lost of levies and charges are impose on the commoditeis some are ligal while some are illigal....

again some commodities demamd you buy them by measurement in kilo(mudu) so in this case you need to know how to do the measurement if not you will be cheated by the farmers....

there are many things to be consider before you make your choice .....

there are advantages and disadvantages if you decided to use agent but the advantages have tje higher hand than the disadvantage...

same applied on you do it yourself...

Thanks for the reaffirmation.