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Table 1.13. Overall ranking of products identified during the Tabora, Tanzania, workshop.

Syzygium Guava Strychnos Vitex Groundnut Mango Marula Parinari Baobab Flacourtia

juice jam juice jam butter juice wine wine juice jam

Ecological 1 9 3 4 10 6 1 5 6 8

Socio-economic 3 1 3 8 2 5 10 8 6 7

Market 2 4 4 6 1 3 10 9 8 6

Technical 3 1 6 3 10 9 3 2 6 6

Sum 9 15 16 21 23 23 24 24 26 27

Overall ranking 1 2 3 4 5 5 7 7 9 10

Source: Ham (2004).

Table 1.14. Overall ranking of products identified during the Harare, Zimbabwe, workshop.

Ziziphus fruit Marula Marula Parinari Uapaca Strychnos

leather jelly oil oil jam jelly

Ecological 2 5 5 3 1 3

Socio-economic 3 4 1 2 6 5

Market 3 2 1 4 4 6

Technical 2 1 5 5 4 2

Sum 10 12 12 14 15 16

Overall ranking 1 2 2 4 5 6

Source: Ham (2004).

for development. The commercial processors attending the Harare workshop
rated the high-value oil products as most beneficial to socio-economic
development, with jam and jelly products as the least beneficial. The
community processors at the Malawi and Tanzania workshops rated the lower-
value products, such as jams, as having a higher socio-economic potential than
the higher-value wine products. This probably reflects their lack of experience
in processing products into wine.
Mango, guava, groundnut and tomato products were rated the highest by
community processors. The reasons for this could be that the fruits are easily
accessible and abundant and that they were more familiar with the processing
of these fruits than with indigenous fruits. This again highlights the need to
focus on exotic fruits in addition to indigenous fruits in domestication and
commercialization programmes. The Zimbabwe workshop participants had
much greater exposure to international markets than the Malawian and
Tanzanian participants. Therefore they rated marula products the highest.
Marula is one of the best-known natural products in southern African and has
been made popular by the Distell Corporation's production of Amarula Cream
liqueur in South Africa. The community groups in the Malawi and Tanzania
workshops rated marula products last. This indicates a need for a differentiation
in marketing strategies when dealing with the marketing of fruit products at
local and regional/international levels. The technology evaluation shed some
light on the reasons that community processors at the Malawi and Tanzania