Do youth farmers benefit from participating in contract farming? Evidence from French beans youth farmers in Arusha, Tanzania

Marwa, Mwita; Manda, Julius

doi:10.1080/03031853.2022.2099917

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“…This entails that the null hypothesis is not supported instead the alternative hypothesis is considered. This findings aligns with other studies which indicate that participation in contract farming positively influence smallholder farmers productivity (Saroj et al, 2023;Bidzakin et al, 2020;Marwa & Manda, 2022;URT, 2016). Coherence of this study with results from others studies underscores that contract farming plays a substantial influence in increasing green leaf tea productivity among the farmers.…”

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“…Furthermore, the farmer's age, level of education, and the availability of family labour were indicated as favourable impacts on farmers' participation in contract farming. In Tanzania, the study undertake by Marwa and Manda (2022) by using endogenous switching regression (ESR) and PSM revealed that contract farming contribute to improved beans yield, income from beans and household income. Similarly, as this study focused on youth, these results may imply that age is critical to farmers performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Effect of Contract Farming on Smallholder Farmers' Green Leaf Tea Production in Tanzania

Dogeje,

Ngaruko

2023

Economics and Finance

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This paper investigates the impact of contract farming on green leaf tea output among Tanzanian smallholder farmers. Data from 393 growers from Mbeya and Njombe regions were collected in a cross-sectional survey and analysed descriptively using IBM Statistics Version 26. A multiple linear regression model was used to test the null hypothesis. The findings show that contract farming engagement (β=140.102; P=0.058) positively impact production. Moreover, household size (β=2.268; P=0.903) and gender (β=294.978; P=0.000) positively impact green leaf tea production. Besides, age (β=-2.719), education (β=-3171.868), and farm size (β=-20.866) all negatively impact production, but education only was statistically significant at P=0.002. We conclude that, contract farming has a favourable impact on green leaf tea production and suggests recognising its potential for farmers’ growth. Besides, its nuanced importance and borderline P value (0.058) prompts further research on contract design, capacity-building, and market dynamics. Additionally, this paper highlights nuanced effects of farmer attributes. While household size and gender positively influences production, age, education, and larger farms negatively impact it. A comprehensive approach to tea production optimization, considering age-appropriate practices, education-specific interventions, and efficient farm management, is crucial. Further investigation into the combined effects of age, education, and gender is suggested for holistic insights.

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confidence: 92%

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Effect of Contract Farming on Smallholder Farmers' Green Leaf Tea Production in Tanzania

Dogeje,

Ngaruko

2023

Economics and Finance

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“…Minot and Ronchi (2015) found that farmers could increase their income by about 25%–75% by entering into contract with business firms. However providing the more precise picture, Marwa and Manda (2022) argued that participation in contract farming leads to increase in yield, crop income, and household income by 17%, 34%, and 37.5%, respectively. Despite the fact that it is primarily a commercial endeavor, many farmers now find contracts to be more attractive as the arrangement can offer both a guaranteed market and access to production support.…”

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Income Perspective of Contract Farming Across Globe: A Bibliometric Review

Mehla,

Kumar

2023

Journal of Operations and Strategic Planning

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The purpose of this article is to provide a report on scientific production in the field of the role of contract farming in farmers’ income and pinpoint research gaps. For this purpose, content and citation analysis using R-based Biblioshiny and visualization using VOSviewer were performed. A total of 228 articles were selected from Scopus database which were reduced to 159 in accordance with their relevancy. The analysis shows that although farmer income is one of the most significant social sustainability issues, the field is still underrepresented and has received considerable academic attention only in recent years. The majority of contemporary studies have come from a South Asian perspective, with India and the USA being the two major contributors. The currently available literature focuses mainly on a few key aspects, such as the advantages, difficulties, and historical background of contract farming. However, several crucial issues, such as the sustainability of contract farming, farmers’ bargaining power, and autonomy are not addressed. Hence, empirical data is scant. The major limitation is the reliance on a single data source, namely Scopus, and it is highly probable that additional beneficial researches that are not included in Scopus will continue to be overlooked.

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“…The case of global weather change in relation to economic activities contemporarily is a debatable global agenda. Marwa et al (2021) found that through irrigation farming youth are benefiting contractual farm on French beans, and increase yield by 17%. This increase of yield accounts the increase of household income by 34% and 37.5%.…”

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Determinants of Collaborative Negotiation Style on Agribusiness Performance of High Value Food Crop Products in Tanzania: Evidence from Middlemen in Arusha

Chonjo,

Ngaruko,

Lyanga

2023

ARDJ

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This paper explored the role of collaborative negotiation style in agribusiness food value addition in Tanzania with insights from Arusha city. The data were collected from a cross-sectional survey of 280 middlemen who trade on high value crops with perishable nature in Arusha main markets. A multiple regression analysis was conducted to determined main factors contributing to collaborative negotiation style but also on their disaggregated effect on agribusiness performance. The results showed that collaborative negotiation style through satisfaction, assertiveness, solution and communality had a positive effect on agribusiness performance on (ϼ< 0.05). The model has high concern for self and high concern for others; this created a good environment for the perpetual transaction of the high value products since each of the negotiating part's interest has been considered. The high concern for others as well as high self-concern has been founded to add positive performance on high value products and made it to be one of the important negotiation models with positive impact on the agribusiness performance. The model found to be suitable on high value food crops. The perishable nature of high value food crops made collaborative negotiation style being suitable as the risk are reduced by middlemen involvement on the value chain process.

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Do youth farmers benefit from participating in contract farming? Evidence from French beans youth farmers in Arusha, Tanzania

Cited by 11 publications

References 38 publications

Effect of Contract Farming on Smallholder Farmers' Green Leaf Tea Production in Tanzania

Effect of Contract Farming on Smallholder Farmers' Green Leaf Tea Production in Tanzania

Income Perspective of Contract Farming Across Globe: A Bibliometric Review

Determinants of Collaborative Negotiation Style on Agribusiness Performance of High Value Food Crop Products in Tanzania: Evidence from Middlemen in Arusha

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