Table 4 Marketing problems facing olive farmers
From: Production and marketing problems facing olive farmers in North Sinai Governorate, Egypt
Problems | % | |
|---|---|---|
1 | Exploitation of traders | 62 |
2 | The absence of marketing extension | 59 |
3 | High prices of trained labor to collect the crop | 59 |
4 | Lack of olive presses | 57 |
5 | Lack of suitable packaging for olive | 44 |
6 | The olive presses are far from the farm | 38 |
7 | Lack of marketing information on quantities traded in the markets and ways of production distributing | 38 |
8 | Delay the process of squeezing because of the quantities are relatively large than presses capacity | 38 |
9 | Lack of trained labor to collect the crop | 32 |
10 | Lack of fitted warehouses | 30 |
11 | Production areas far from markets | 30 |
12 | High transport cost | 27 |
13 | Lack of information on how to Group marketing | 26 |
14 | High percentage of losses during collection | 25 |
15 | Reliance on traditional methods of collection | 20 |
16 | Lack of associations of olive producers and exporters | 16 |