The lower the coefficient of marketing efficiency of tomato in the study area could be attributed to its high marketing cost incurred due to post-harvest perish ability. Majority (87%) of the surveyed tomato marketers admitted that the postharvest perish ability of the product was a major threat to its marketing efficiency. They identified some causes of post-harvest perish ability of tomato in the study area to include: mode of transportation to the market, distance to the selling center, mode of storage length of storage, variety of tomato traded and turnover rate