Developing transportation and communication facilities
The development transportation and communication facilities will facilitate the distribution of food.
It will also reduce the price of the food in the local markets since the transportation costs will be reduced.
Not only does it is important to build roads linking food production areas to the cities, it is also important to assist the farmers and the intermediates involved in local food trade in improving the techniques of foods transportation.
In some countries, some perishable food products become inedible when they arrive in the cities due to bad conditions of transportation.
Often products such as fruit, vegetables, roots and tubers are just put in bags and placed in pile in a truck for transportation.
Before arriving at destination, they lose their commercial value.