Marketing of quality declared bean seeds in central northern zone of Tanzania
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Date
2016
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
Bean crops represent an important component of legume food crops consumed in
developing countries. However, production of bean crops has been limited by lack of
quality seeds. Tanzania adopted Quality Declared Seeds (QDS) production system in
order to promote quality seeds, yet QDS accounts for relatively very small amounts of
seeds sales in the country. The overall objective of the study was to generate evidences
that will contribute towards sustainable distribution of QDS bean seeds. Specifically
the study identify profit obtained by QDS bean seed producers; compare gross margins
obtained by QDS bean seed users and non-users; identify factors that influence
profitability of bean grain producers; determine factors which influence purchase
decision of QDS seeds. Gross margin analysis was used to evaluate profit obtained by
QDS bean seed producers and bean grain producers. Furthermore, regression analysis
was employed to identify of factors that influence profit obtained by bean grain
producers and it was also employed to determine factors that influence the purchase of
QDS been seeds in the study area. The gross margin of QDS bean seeds sells obtained
by producers of QDS bean seeds was Tsh 383 256 per acre which gives 54% of the
value of sales on average. There was significant mean different in gross margins among
QDS bean seed users and non-users at p<0.01 were by QDS bean seed users obtained
higher margins than QDS bean seed non-users per acre. Regression analysis indicate
that agricultural training, gender and kind of bean seed used were the major factors
influencing profitability of bean grains production (p<0.1). Agriculture training,
extension service contact, income and membership on credit society were the factors
influencing purchase decision of quality declared bean seeds (p<0.05). The study
recommends improvement of agriculture training, extension service, availability of the
market information and introduction of Irrigation schemes
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Masters Dissertation
Keywords
Marketing-quality bean seeds, Bean seeds, Tanzania, Quality Declared Seeds (QDS)