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Contribution of spice farming to household’s income on the slopes of uluguru mountains, Morogoro Tanzania

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dc.creator Ngolle, Ainessy
dc.date 2022-06-21T08:43:56Z
dc.date 2022-06-21T08:43:56Z
dc.date 2021
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-25T08:51:48Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-25T08:51:48Z
dc.identifier https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/4282
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/91769
dc.description Masters Thesis
dc.description The current study aimed at assessing how spice farming contributes to household’s income of smallholder farmers on slopes of Uluguru Mountains. Specifically, the study intended to identify types of spices cultivated in the study area, examining the contribution of spices to household’s income, determining farmers’ attitude towards organic spice farming and assess challenges facing spice farming households in the study area. The study adopted the cross-sectional research design whereby data was collected from 120 respondents randomly selected from four purposively selected wards of Morogoro District. The wards covered were Kinole, Mkuyuni, Mtombozi and Tawa. Primary data from respondents were collected through a pre- structured questionnaire with both open and closed-ended questions. In addition, primary data were collected from 11 key informants. Quantitative data collected through questionnaire were analysed using SPSS software version 20 whereby descriptive and inferential (Chi-squire test and Paired sample t-test) were determined. Generally, study findings show that black pepper, cinnamon are the most cultivated spices in the study area. Study findings also, show that income generated from spices especially vanilla, black pepper and cinnamon were higher compared to income generated from other crops (p< 0.007, t=2.727). Findings further show that the surveyed farmers have a favourable attitude towards organic spice farming that they have understood the importance of organic practice in conservation of the environment. Also, findings show that fungi disease affecting black pepper is the major problem followed by poor market arrangement. Study concludes, that both sales from spices and from other crops were the sources of household’s income. However, spices sales generated larger portion of income compared to sales from other crops. Also, respondents have understood the relationship between organic practices and environmental conservation. Furthermore, the prosperity of spice production in Uluguru Mountains is threatened by fungi disease and poor market arrangements. Therefore, the study recommends that farmers should increase the production of black pepper, cinnamon and vanilla because there is a reliable market for them. Also, spice stakeholders such as SAT and Spice Up Project should introduce hybrid varieties of spices which are resistant to diseases and pests. Furthermore, the Ministry of agriculture should enact law which will regulate middle person conduct when buying spices direct from farmers
dc.description Assistance from Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT)
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher Sokoine University of Agriculture
dc.subject Spice farming
dc.subject Household’s income
dc.subject Uluguru mountains
dc.subject Morogoro
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.title Contribution of spice farming to household’s income on the slopes of uluguru mountains, Morogoro Tanzania
dc.type Thesis


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