| dc.creator |
Msinde, J. V. |
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| dc.creator |
Urassa, J. K. |
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| dc.creator |
Nathan, I |
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| dc.date |
2020-08-10T08:29:41Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-08-10T08:29:41Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-05-03 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-10-25T08:53:15Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-10-25T08:53:15Z |
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| dc.identifier |
2619 – 8894 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/3135 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/93550 |
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| dc.description |
The East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 1920: Vol 1(2) |
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| dc.description |
Engaging in off-farm employment among farming households may either have a competing effect or complementary effect
with households’ own farm work. Both effects have implications on the household's ability to enhance farm investment and reduce
poverty. This study first examines the role of off-farm employment on financing farm inputs, and secondly, it assesses the effects of
labour devoted to off-farm employment on a household’s farm labour supply. The survey data from 309 randomly selected farming
households in five villages of the Kilombero Valley were used. Tobit model that considers cornered solution has been used. Results from
the econometric estimation show that holding other factors constant, the increase of non-farm self-employment income is associated
with more expenditure on inputs. Qualitative evidence, however, suggests that some forms of labour-demanding off-farm employment
such as those related to farm wage have an undesirable labour effect on labour supply on households’ farms, with repercussions onfarm
productivity. It is recommended that rural development policies should establish synergy between farm and off-farm activities
taking into account the effect of both income and labour on off-farm employment. |
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| dc.format |
application/pdf |
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| dc.publisher |
College of Social Sciences and Humanities |
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| dc.subject |
Input expenditure |
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| dc.subject |
Off-farm employment |
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| dc.subject |
Farm inputs |
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| dc.subject |
Labour allocation |
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| dc.subject |
Kilombero |
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| dc.title |
Farm and off-farm linkages: The effect of off- farm employment on farm inputs and labour allocation in Kilombero valley, Tanzania |
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| dc.type |
Article |
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