Socio-Economic and Institutional Factors Affecting Smallholders Farmers to Adopt Agroforestry Practices in Southern Province Of Rwanda
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Date
2020
Authors
Mukundente, Liliane
Ndunda, Ezekiel
Gathuru, G
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PeerTechz Publication
Abstract
This paper is mainly focused on identifying the socio economic and institutional factors infl uencing agroforestry adoption in Southern Province. Field survey was
conducted during July to September, 2019 using structured questionnaire. This study was carried out in four districts in southern province of Rwanda. The number of
respondents involved in the study was 650 farmers. A descriptive survey design was used in this study. For the selection of the sample, the study adopted a stratifi ed
random sampling technique and simple random technique. Binary logit regression model has been used to determine the factors affecting farmers adopting agroforestry.
Finally, Binary regression analysis showed no signifi cant association between the adoption of agroforestry practices and respondent’s age, gender, marital status, farming
experience or income range of the respondents. On the other hand, there is a positive signifi cant association between the adoption of agroforestry practices and household
size is 0.00 p-value as well as the farm size of the respondents. It is expected that farmers with larger household size are more likely to adopt agroforestry practices than
farmers with smaller household size and also shows that most of the farmers who were more likely to adopt agroforestry had a bigger land acreage for planting more
trees.
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Keywords
Agroforestry, Socio economic factors, Institutional factor, Binary regression model, Smallholders
Citation
Liliane, M., Ezekiel, N., & Gathuru, G. (2020). Socio-economic and institutional factors affecting smallholder farmers to adopt agroforestry practices in the southern province of Rwanda. International Journal of Agricultural Science and Food Technology, 6(1), 068-074.