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Factors affecting income of smallholder Sunflower farmers in Singida region, Tanzania A case study of sunflower farmers in Singida Rural district

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dc.creator Sintoo, Yohana Elia
dc.date 2016-04-05T10:17:00Z
dc.date 2016-04-05T10:17:00Z
dc.date 2015
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/11192/1163
dc.description A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA)-Corporate Management of Mzumbe University
dc.description The paper stresses on understanding factors affecting development of sunflower sub sector in Tanzania particularly in Singida rural district, in Singida region. sunflower is one of the most important crops in Singida in improving rural farmers‟ income. The study employed Multiple stage sampling procedure .Regardless the government of Tanzania has been implementing various agricultural development production as well as to enhance farmers‟ income. However, yet the results reveal that the sunflower farming practices in the studied area are not well developed, low prices received by farmers, poor market infrastructure such as processing facilities, road facilities, poor contract entered middlemen and lack of market information by farmers few farmers organization . Connection to that sunflower market is dominated by traders. The common practice is for traders to buy the sunflower crop before the harvest and ultimately farmers obtain low prices. This market practice seems to erode a greater portion of market margin to the farmers and the study has shown that along the sunflower value of chain farmers receive low profitability compare to the traders and processors who earn high profit. It is therefore, recommended that the policy maker should focus on development of sunflower sub sector in Tanzania in order to promote the production. Contracting farming and formulation of farmers organization should be encouraged to motivate and mobilize the farmers and earn more profit to improve their livelihood.
dc.language en
dc.publisher Mzumbe University
dc.subject Sunflower farmers
dc.title Factors affecting income of smallholder Sunflower farmers in Singida region, Tanzania A case study of sunflower farmers in Singida Rural district
dc.type Thesis


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