Determinants of smallholders farmers’ participation in collective marketing of maize in the central highlands of Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorMugwe J.
dc.contributor.authorAyieko, D.
dc.contributor.authorBett E.
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-12T13:47:28Z
dc.date.available2020-08-12T13:47:28Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionA research article published in African Journal of Rural Development published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en_US
dc.description.abstractCollective marketing has been proposed as a solution to the problem of poor access to markets in developing nations. However, smallholders’ market participation is still limited. This study assessed farmers’ perception of the benefits and challenges in collective marketing, and identified the determinants of smallholder farmers’ participation in collective marketing of maize from 126 households in the central highlands of Kenya. Logistic regression model was used to analyze factors explaining farmers’ participation in collective marketing. The key benefits of collective marketing were better prices and low cost of inputs, while the main challenges were poor infrastructure, disagreement among members and lack of credit. Gender of household head, years of farming experience, training on market information search, keeping records, ability to search market information, marketing group size, extension contact frequency and group meeting frequency were significantly associated with farmers participation in collective marketing. Participation in collective marketing could be improved by targeting women already organized in groups, offering training to households on record keeping, enhanced extension contacts, improving marketing group operations and searching for markets.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAssociation for Strengthening Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa (ASARECA)en_US
dc.identifier.citationMugwe, J., Ayieko, D., Bett, E. and Mogaka, H. 2019. Determinants of smallholders farmers’ participation in collective marketing of maize in the central highlands of Kenya. African Journal of Rural Development 4 (2):225-241.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2415-2838
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.afjrd.org/jos/index.php/afjrd/article/view/2000
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/20247
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAfrican Journal of Rural Developmenten_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectKenya,en_US
dc.subjectLogistic regressionen_US
dc.subjectmarket informationen_US
dc.subjectmarket trendsen_US
dc.subjectmarket trendsen_US
dc.subjectpoor infrastructureen_US
dc.subjectrecord keepingen_US
dc.titleDeterminants of smallholders farmers’ participation in collective marketing of maize in the central highlands of Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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