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Determinants of Financial Sustainability of Small Holder Sugarcane Farming Systems in Tanzania

African Journal of Economic Review

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Title Determinants of Financial Sustainability of Small Holder Sugarcane Farming Systems in Tanzania
 
Creator Mushi, AS
Ngaruko, DD
 
Subject smallholder farmers, block farming, traditional farming, financial sustainability and profitability, Tanzania
 
Description The study investigated the impact of farming systems on determinants of smallholder sugarcane farmers (SSFs) financial sustainability (FS) between Block Farming (BF) and Traditional Farming (TF) systems. FS was analyzed by assessing profitability of the farming system. Semi structured questionnaires were  administered to a random sample of SSFs and officials of block farms within Kilombero valley in Morogoro  region in the south eastern Tanzania. 1040 observations from 394 respondents for SSFs’ FS have been  analyzed at significance level of p = 0.05. Two sample t-Tests, one way ANOVA and Tobit regression  analysis performed revealed that effects of the two farming systems on the hypothesized factors differs  significantly. Yield, price and cost have been found to have significant effects on financial sustainability,  whereas the effect of land size and sucrose were not significant.BF has been found to be significantly more effective than TF system in ensuring profitability of the farmers. Profitability through BF is 0.56 (56%) as compared to 0.39 (39%) through TF.Key words: smallholder farmers, block farming, traditional farming, financial sustainability and profitability, Tanzania
 
Publisher Centre for Economics and Community Economic Development
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2015-07-14
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajer/article/view/119430
 
Source African Journal of Economic Review; Vol 3, No 2 (2015); 57-73
1821-8148
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajer/article/view/119430/108888
 
Rights The copyright belongs to: African Journal of Economic Review, Centre for Economics and Community Economic Development, The Open University of Tanzania, P.O.Box 23409, Dar es salaam, Tanzania