Browsing by Author "Nyinondi, P. S."
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Item Perception of agricultural biotechnology among farmers, journalists and scientists in Tanzania(2017-06) Nyinondi, P. S.; Dulle, F. W.; Nawe, J.This study sought to establish the perception of farmers, journalists and scientists of genetically-modified (GM) crops in Tanzania. Its specific objectives were to determine the perception of GM Crops among farmers, journalists and scientists in Tanzania, and to determine the factors that influence their perception. A cross-sectional survey was designed to generate both qualitative and quantitative data. The questionnaire, and focus group discussion and observation guides were deployed to collect requisite data from 265 respondents. This study found that Tanzania has infrastructure, researchers (inadequate but the number is growing), policies, legislations and guidelines for developing and deploying GM crops. The results further show that overall 70.5 percent of the sampled farmers, journalists and scientists had positive perception of GM crops whereas 23.8 percent had a neutral perception and 5.7 percent had a negative perception. Individual perceptions of GM crops in Tanzania is influenced by a combination of multiple factors, namely age, gender, educational level, marital status, religion, occupation and basic knowledge in science and technology. It is recommended that agricultural stakeholders should strive to have in place policies and legislations, which are supported by scientific evidence and which in turn support science advancement.Item Results on testing improved traditional technique to reduce farmers-monkeys conflict associated with crop-raiding in Uluguru mountains, Tanzania(Faculty of Forestry and Nature Conservation, SUA, 2009-06) Nyinondi, P. S.; Lutatenekwa, D. L.This paper presents the preliminary results on initial intervention to harmonize farmers-monkeys conflict by developing monkeys’ management technique on the farm-forest interfaces. In-situ monkeys’ control experiment was developed, whereby dogs were trained and used to guard 20 Experimental Pilot Farms (EPF). Furthermore, other 20 Experimental Control Farms (ECF) were selected and farmers were advised to continue using the tradition techniques. The EPF and ECF farms have relatively similar characteristics in term of location from the forests, vegetation cover, farming systems and crops grown. Farmers were responsible for recording the incidence of crop raiding. The preliminary results shows that dogs reduced monkeys crop raiding incidences from 33.3% in ECF to 12.8% in EPF. The statistical results in ECF were relatively low compared to farmers’ perceived crop raiding incidences of 37.8% and estimated crop damage up to 41.1%. The weather conditions and crop seasons seem not to be associated with monkeys’ crop raiding behaviour in Uluguru Mountains. Therefore, the preliminary results suggest that the use of trained dogs in farms is cheap and can save up to 61.5 % of the current crop losses.