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ABSTRACT
Plantain marketing is faced with post-harvest losses. The study therefore, was carried out to analyze the post-harvest loss in plantain marketing in Oredo Local Government Area. The specific objectives were to describe the socio-economic characteristics of plantain marketers in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, examine costs and returns of plantain in the study area, determine the quantity of loss in revenue due to post-harvest losses in plantain marketing, examine the determinants of gross margin of post-harvest loss in plantain marketing, identify the constraints faced by plantain marketers in the study area. Both primary and secondary data were used for this study. A two stage sampling procedure was used to select eighty-eight plantain marketers in the study area. Data collected were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics.
