Head cabbage is a variety of cabbage characterized by a head and smooth foliage. During the rainy season, many people market it. As a result, we met Mohamed Yaméogo affectionately called ” three-pockets ”, an apple cabbage trader, on August 30, 2023 at the fruit and vegetable market in the city of Sya.
The commercialization of cabbage contributes to the economic development of tropical countries and this is what motivates people to invest in this field. Mohamed Yaméogo has been a cabbage seller for twenty years. “I started selling cabbage about twenty years ago,” he said.
When asked why he got involved in the sale of apple cabbage, he told us that ” I was marketing brown crab and I had an accident. During this period, I could not move. It was then that I decided to invest in the marketing of apple cabbage with the collaboration of my older sister who is in Ouagadougou”, he explains to us.
To hear Mohamed Yaméogo, this trade is not without constraints. ” At times when the goods are unloaded, the cabbages come in good condition, but during the shipment to Ouagadougou, because of the heat, it can happen that a large quantity decomposes before reaching its final destination. This leads to disagreements between them and their customers in the capital., he laments. This trader says he gets his supplies from resellers at the fruit and vegetable market. According to him, it is the only place where he gets his supplies and mainly from the women who send the goods from the surrounding villages. “I always limit myself to the market and when the women come from the villages, we discuss the price and I buy”, he adds. In marketing, I am helped by my big sister. When I buy here I send her to Ouagadougou where she sells. I only give my wares to her alone,” for a matter of trust. Per day, ” is can unload 3 to 5 vehicles with a capacity of 18 bags of 100kg each » reveals Mohamed Yaméogo. Loading a vehicle of such capacity, according to him, costs between 150,000 to 200,000 CFA francs in the rainy season. This corresponds to a period when cabbage is available in large quantities. However, the same quantity costs between 500,000 to 600,000 CFA francs when cabbages are scarce.
Samiratou Salimata SYLLA
Norrockom Edwige KAM/Interns
