Income inequality among the smallholder irrigation farmers: the case of Hamamavhaire and Ngondoma irrigation schemes in the midlands province of Zimbabwe

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dc.contributor.authorChivizhe, Joseph, B.
dc.contributor.authorMugabe, Francis, T.
dc.contributor.authorKadigi, Reuben,M.J.
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-04T10:57:38Z
dc.date.available2022-08-04T10:57:38Z
dc.date.issued2018-12
dc.descriptionGuj. Journal of ex. Edu. Vol. 29 : Issue 2en_US
dc.description.abstractZimbabwe developed smallholder irrigated agriculture initially as a famine relief strategy and later towards alleviation of poverty, employment creation and cushioning the country’s semi arid periodic droughts since the beginning of the twentieth century. The study evaluated the effect of smallholder irrigated agriculture on income distribution. A multistage sampling technique was used to select the two study areas of Ngondoma and HamaMavhaire comprising 71and 56 sample respondents respectively. A researcher administered questionnaire for collection of cross-sectional data. HamaMavhaire results show negative disaggregated income (USD 335.38) for the bottom quintile with the top quintile earning 64.07% of total income. Ngondoma results show earnings of 2.94%, and 58.7% of the income earned by the bottom and top quintiles respectively. The finding shows a Gini coefficient of 0.624 for HamaMavhaire and 0.516 for Ngondoma indicating greater income inequality in HamaMavhaire. Disaggregation of total income using the coefficient of variation and the Gini coefficient shows crop income and transfers being consistently inequality reducing sources, while self employment was inequality increasing. Livestock and non-farm income behaved differently being inequality reducing sources under the Gini coefficient and inequality increasing under the Coefficient of variation. However literature recommends Coefficient of variation than Gini coefficient as more meaningful measure.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/4362
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherGujarat Journal of Extension Educationen_US
dc.subjectsmallholder irrigationen_US
dc.subjectIncome inequalityen_US
dc.subjectGini coefficienten_US
dc.subjectCoefficient of variationen_US
dc.subjectInequality increasingen_US
dc.titleIncome inequality among the smallholder irrigation farmers: the case of Hamamavhaire and Ngondoma irrigation schemes in the midlands province of Zimbabween_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.urlhttp://hdl.handle.net/11408/3863en_US

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