Socio-economic, institutional and behavioural determinants of accessibility and utilization of agricultural information by women farmers in Korogwe District
| dc.contributor.author | Mntambo Betty David | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-19T11:23:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-19T11:23:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.description | Dissertation | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study on the socio-economic, institutional, and behavioural determinants of accessibility and utilization of agricultural information was conducted in Korogwe District. Two wards were selected, these were Vugiri and Magunga and thereafter four villages were purposively selected namely; Vugiri, Bagamoyo, Kwcsemangubc and Magunga. The broad objective of this study was to investigate the accessibility and utilization of agricultural information for production among women farmers in Korogwe District. The study involved 100 women farmers randomly selected from four villages. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire supplemented by interview checklists for key informants and FGDs. The SPSS software was used to analyse data to obtain frequencies, percentages, and means. Chi Square test was used to determine the association between some of the variables. The findings of this study showed that education, age, extension services, and mass media determine the access and utilization of agricultural information. Furthermore, the results showed that poor household production was due to the lack of extension services, low education of the respondents, lack of financial credit and ignorance of sources of information. Moreover, the study found out that, sources of agricultural information (extension services, mass media, and farmers own efforts) have a direct linkage with the accessibility to agricultural information. The following recommendations were made from this study. First, since the results indicated that there is limited accessibility to agricultural information to women farmers, therefore efforts to increase the accessibility of agricultural information should be increased. Secondly, there is a need of improving extension services so as to reach targeted clients. The fact that Vugiri ward is located in the highlands, and soil erosion is among the problems which have contributed to poor production it is thus suggested that efforts should be made to introduce soil management programmes so as to increase crop production. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Higher Education Students Loan Board | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/5929 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Sokoine University of Agriculture | |
| dc.subject | Socio-economic | |
| dc.subject | Institutional-behavioural determinants | |
| dc.subject | Accessibility-utilization agricultural information | |
| dc.subject | Women farmers | |
| dc.subject | Korogwe District | |
| dc.title | Socio-economic, institutional and behavioural determinants of accessibility and utilization of agricultural information by women farmers in Korogwe District | |
| dc.type | Thesis |