Driver’s of Entrepreneurial Opportunities Exploitation by Tree Farmers in Kenya: The Case of Improved Eucalyptus Trees Growing in Lari District
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Date
2015
Authors
Kanyi, Benson N.
Kung’u, James B.
Ofafa, Gorretty A.
Ombui, Geofrey Monari
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Publisher
Academic Research Journal
Abstract
The introduction of improved Eucalyptus trees varieties to Kenya in 1997 from Mondi Forests in South
Africa by Tree Biotechnology Project (TBP) has rekindled tree-planting culture. Millions of seedlings
have been distributed across the country. By administering questionnaires to a sample of 385 tree
farmers in Lari District of Kiambu County, the study sort to empirically test the critical factors
influencing the planting of improved Eucalyptus trees. The study revealed 63.6% of the farmers
indicated the improved eucalyptus tree enterprises had complied with quality highly while 66.2% of
them indicate that the improved eucalyptus tree seedlings enterprises had complied fairly with
environmental safety.Covariance Matrix shows that although theoretically the factor scores should be
entirely uncorrelated, the covariance is not zero, which is a consequence of the scores being estimated
rather than calculated exactly. Hence there were factors that had no influence on the farmers’ planting
improved eucalyptus tree varieties in Lari District. The driver’s of opportunity exploitation from this
research, included risk aversion, opportunity for product differentiation, degree of control over
production processes, skills to make it work and availability of ready market. These drivers are critical
in any entrepreneurial process and underscore the premises that the trees farmers in pursuing the
opportunity of improved tree varieties they were entrepreneurial. Policy interventions that can enhance
these driver’s would result in accelerated planting of more improved trees varieties.
Description
Research article
Keywords
Improved eucalyptus varieties, Opportunity exploitation, Tree farmers, Entrepreneurship
Citation
Kanyi, B. N., Kung’u, B., Ofafa, G. A., Kibas, P., & Monari, G. Driver’s of entrepreneurial opportunities exploitation by Tree Farmers in Kenya: the case of Improved Eucalyptus Trees Growing in Lari District.