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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY


Volume 16, No. 03, Month MAY, Year 2020, Pages 597 - 610


The socio-economic and institutional factors affecting farmers’ preferences for selection of rice varieties in kilombero district, morogoro region, tanzania

Changalima, Z. B., Rangsipaht, S. and Nakasathien, S.


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The farmers’ selection of the best variety for rice production is the most important step to increase crop productivity. The results revealed that socio-economic factors such as age, education, farming experience, total land holdings and source of seeds had influenced on farmers’ decisions to use high yield varieties (HYVs). On the other hand, the socio-economic factors such as household size, membership to farmers’ associations, land for growing rice and income from selling rice were the key constraints for the farmers’ preferences for using HYVs. Moreover, gender, marital status, membership to social networks, cost of production, yield harvested, access to credit, source of rice seeds, market prices, and transport were positively recorded but not significantly related to farmer’s preference for using HYVs.


Keywords

Farmer preferences, High yielding varieties, Institutional factors, Rice varieties, Socio-economic factors



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