Full Length Research Cost Revenue Analysis of Tomato Production in Talensi Nabdam District of Upper East Region, Ghana. Farida Abubakari and Fariya Abubakari Department of Agricultural economics, Agribusiness and Extension, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana Corresponding Author email address: uniquefarida@live.com Accepted 7 April 2015 The study focused on the profitability of tomato production in the Talensi Nabdam District of Upper East Region of Ghana. A total of 100 respondents were interviewed using questionnaire. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and the income statement. The arithmetic mean was used to find the average cost of production, output per acre and return per acre. Tomato production was found to be profitable with a profit of GH¢ 284.83 per hectare, output of 1,716kg per hectare, gross income of GH¢1,304.16 per hectare and return per Cedi invested was found to be 0.279 Pesewa. Labor constituted 62% of the total variable cost and this shows the high intensity of labor in tomato production. Keywords: Cost; Revenue; Tomato; Production; Profitability. INTRODUCTION Despite all efforts by Trade and Investment Program for Competitive Export Economy, research stations such as Savanna Agricultural Research Institute and Government among others to come out with technologies to help boost tomato industry, production is still below local consumption. This could be attributed to problems including lack of reliable market for their produce, high cost of inputs, price fluctuations, and unavailable storage and processing facilities, high credit and irrigation costs (Farida & Fariya, 2014). Farida and Fariya, 2014 also reported that, credit allows farmers to be able to allocate resources efficiently to increase their production. Institutions like Agricultural Development Bank (A.D.B), Ghana Commercial Bank (G.C.B) and Barclays Bank made heavy investment into the tomato industry which helped increase farm size and also encouraged farmers to adopt new technologies such as tractor use, improved seeds and the use of chemical fertilizer to help increase production (MOFA, 2008). Most tomato farmers especially in the northern region where a greater percentage of tomato is produced are small scale farmers who because of the problem of collateral find it difficult to obtain loans from the credit institutions. Small scale farmers therefore depend on their own meager resource which in most cases is not adequate to purchase enough inputs for a higher output (Farida & Fariya, 2014). Sailaja et al. (1998) indicates that vegetable production is profitable despite major constraints such as the non- availability of quality seed, inadequate credit and marketing facilities; shortage of water; and inefficiency in postharvest handling. Academic Research Journal of Agricultural Science and Research Vol. 3(7), pp. 184-187, July 2015 DOI: 10.14662/ARJASR2015.014 Copy©right 2015 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article ISSN: 2360-7874 http://www.academicresearchjournals.org/ARJASR/Index.htm