Materials and Methods
Description of Study Area The study was carried out in Delta State, Nigeria. This location was chosen for the study because tomato marketing offers means of livelihood to a lot of people. Ogbegonogo market in Asaba (urban centre) and Igbodo market (sub-urban centre). These markets were purposively selected for the study due to their unique features with respect to tomato marketing. Ogbegonogo market attracts large supply of tomatoes from traders who travel to various parts of Northern Nigeria to buy tomato for resale. This is however, supplemented with supplies from adjoining farming communities during tomato season. On the other hand, Igbodo is both tomato producing and tomato marketing center. However, they supplement their interseasonal out of-stock with tomato produced in the