Socio-economic factors influencing the adoption of agro-forestry practices in nyanja division, Musoma rural district, Mara region, Tanzania

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dc.contributor.authorJames, Anastazia Bhoke Wambura
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-05T10:10:24Z
dc.date.available2026-02-05T10:10:24Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.descriptionDissertation
dc.description.abstractThe recurrent food shortages in the lake shore zone of Musoma rural district led the catholic diocese of Musoma to stimulate the use of agro-forestry practices through Nyanja Agro-forestry Project. Evaluation findings revealed unsatisfactory performance of the project. Factors presented I nclude poor approach for both project design and implementation “top down approach”, lack of funds for some of the project activities, limited linkages with other forestry groups and inadequate extension staff and services. A study was carried out in Nyanja division, Musoma rural district, Mara region, with Bukumi, Rusoli, Chitale, Kome and Buanga as target villages from the four Western wards of Nyanja. The main objective of the study was to determine socio-economic factors that influence the adoption of agro-forestry practices in Nyanja division. The study involved social survey. The households were randomly sampled. Two steps were followed, pilot study and actual data collection. In the pilot study 6 households were sampled in each of 5 village while actual data collection involved 40 households in each village, which summed up to 200 households as an overall sample size. Secondary data was collected from various sources whereas primary data was collected using PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal), household questionnaire and checklist. Data were analysed using content analysis and SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) program. Findings indicated that, from the year 1991 6% of the population decides to apply agro-forestry technology in the fields every year accounting to a rate of 46.2 trees/ household /ha. This rate with respect to linear regression analysis was evidenced to significantly be influenced by land size and knowledge. Sources of risk, mainly drought, fire incidences, livestock browsing as well as pests and diseases were most frequently mentioned by farmers as constraints to adoption. With an index of 50 trees as adoption at household level, only 33% of respondents were found to have adopted agro-forestry whereby 46.7% cultivable land was under agro forestry. From the logistic regression analysis, the significant factors that were found to influence the adoption of agro­ forestry practices were, labour at p=0.05, land size and knowledge at p< 0.01. It was therefore concluded that, the main constraint to adoption might be farmers tendency to averse risk resulted from drought, destruction by livestock, pests and diseases as well as fire incidences. The positive perception of economic profitability of the technology by farmers would be as equally important as adequate land, knowledge and labour . availability in enhancing the adoption of agro-forestry practices in Nyanja division. Management, research and policy recommendations have been presented.
dc.description.sponsorshipICRAF
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/20.500.14820/7292
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSokoine Universty of Agriculture
dc.subjectAgro-forestry
dc.subjectSocio-economics
dc.subjectMusoma Rural District
dc.subjectRecurrent food shortages
dc.titleSocio-economic factors influencing the adoption of agro-forestry practices in nyanja division, Musoma rural district, Mara region, Tanzania
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