In Dar es Salaam, the lower-income group spent 77% of its income on
purchasing food; home-cultivation supplied the equivalent of 37% of
their income and saved them 50% of their expenditure in food (Sanyal,
1986: 32). In Addis Ababa, cooperative households consumption of
vegetables was 10% higher than the urban average and this enabled
them to save 10 - 20% of their income (Egziabher, 1994). In Maseru,
Lesotho, a detailed survey of 428 plots revealed that, in the late
1980s, 69%, 51% and 32% of low, medium and high-income vegetable
producers (respectively) were trying to save money through growing
vegetables at home; about 66% of the high-cost, and 29% of the
low-cost, district households claimed to sell some of their produce
regularly (Greenhow, 1994: 2).
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