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    A comparative economic analysis of specialty and conventional small-scale coffee production in Kigoma district, Tanzania.
    (Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2009) Rutaba, Ernest Peter
    This study was conducted in Kigoma district of Kigoma region to compare the economics of specialty and conventional small-scale coffee production. Four villages namely Kalinzi, Nyarubanda, Mkabogo and Mkongoro were surveyed. Random sampling technique was adopted to get 30 respondents from each selected village. This means 10 households for specialty and 20 for conventional coffee farming, making a total sample size of 120 household. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the sample households and complimented by secondarj- data collected from key organisations in the industry. Data were cleaned, coded, entered and analysed using the Statistical Package fbr Social Sciences (SPSS) version 11.5 and Excel programs. Descriptive statistics, regression analysis, gross margin and independent sample t-test were used to analyse the data. The results showed that coffee growers in Kigoma District have household characteristics common to most rural household settings elsewhere in Tanzania. Results from regression analysis indicate that amount of coffee sold and total cost used in both specialty and conventional coffee production influenced producer profitability significantly. From independent sample t-test, the results indicate the gross margin fbr specialty coffee was higher than fbr conventional coffee by about TZS 753 per coffee tree at 5% level of significance. The emperical results comfirm that specialty coffee farming improve farmers income than their counterpart conventional farmers thereby contributing more to poverty reduction in the study area. From these findings, it is recommended that deliberate efforts be made to assist more farmers to grow specials coffee. This could be achieved through farm input subsidies, access to international and local markets, improvement in coffee marketing information system and sources of low cost credit. In addition, construction of village based central pulperies could be considered. In this way. producers could get belter price that contribute significantly to poverty reduction.