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The study aims at assessing the marketing channels, organizations, linkages and lines of movements of horticultural products and production inputs to understand the major constraints of marketing functions and opportunities to improve horticulture production and marketing in the eastern part of Ethiopia. The specific objectives of the study were:

1. To assess the marketing channels, organizations, linkages and lines of movements of horticultural products and production inputs;
2. To assess major constraints of marketing functions (production, processing, grading, buying and selling, transportation, storage, financing, etc.);
3. To analyze national and local government policies, strategies and practices related to marketing and production of horticulture crops;
4. To identify and inform government, chambers of commerce and NGOs with possible strategies that would support horticulture production and marketing to improve the economy of the region and more specifically the income of poor farmers.