Extension-market linkages on banana commercialisation among smallholder farmers in Meru Region, Kenya

IF 0.5 Q4 AGRONOMY

Journal of Agricultural Extension Pub Date : 2022-02-01 DOI:10.4314/jae.v26i1.3

F. K. Kirimi, C. Onyari, L. Njeru, H. Mogaka

{"title":"Extension-market linkages on banana commercialisation among smallholder farmers in Meru Region, Kenya","authors":"F. K. Kirimi, C. Onyari, L. Njeru, H. Mogaka","doi":"10.4314/jae.v26i1.3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The study examined the effect of extension-market linkages on banana commercialisation among smallholder farmers in the Meru region, Kenya. The study sampled 400 farmers from a target population of 288,802 from the Meru region. The Tobit model was used to analyse the effect of extension-market linkages on banana commercialisation. The results revealed that sources of marketing information (Coef. -0.06) had a negative influence on farmers commercialising banana production. The result showed that the reliability of local extension service providers in enabling farmer’s access to market information (Coef. 0.04) had a positive influence on farmers commercialising banana production. The findings also showed that users of marketing information in the commercialisation banana business (Coef. 0.63) had a positive influence on farmers commercialising banana production. The study concludes that there was an association between extension marketing linkages and banana commercialization among smallholder farmers in Meru region, Kenya. Government should create and implement more policies that will favour and encourage farmers to commercialise bananas. This will help farmers increase their income.","PeriodicalId":43669,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Agricultural Extension","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Agricultural Extension","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/jae.v26i1.3","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"AGRONOMY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

The study examined the effect of extension-market linkages on banana commercialisation among smallholder farmers in the Meru region, Kenya. The study sampled 400 farmers from a target population of 288,802 from the Meru region. The Tobit model was used to analyse the effect of extension-market linkages on banana commercialisation. The results revealed that sources of marketing information (Coef. -0.06) had a negative influence on farmers commercialising banana production. The result showed that the reliability of local extension service providers in enabling farmer’s access to market information (Coef. 0.04) had a positive influence on farmers commercialising banana production. The findings also showed that users of marketing information in the commercialisation banana business (Coef. 0.63) had a positive influence on farmers commercialising banana production. The study concludes that there was an association between extension marketing linkages and banana commercialization among smallholder farmers in Meru region, Kenya. Government should create and implement more policies that will favour and encourage farmers to commercialise bananas. This will help farmers increase their income.

查看原文本刊更多论文

肯尼亚梅鲁地区小农香蕉商业化的推广与市场联系

这项研究考察了肯尼亚梅鲁地区小农户的扩展市场联系对香蕉商业化的影响。这项研究从梅鲁地区288802名目标人口中抽取了400名农民。Tobit模型用于分析扩展市场联系对香蕉商业化的影响。结果表明，营销信息来源（系数0.06）对农民将香蕉生产商业化产生了负面影响。结果表明，当地推广服务提供商在使农民获得市场信息方面的可靠性（系数0.04）对农民将香蕉生产商业化产生了积极影响。研究结果还表明，香蕉商业化经营中的营销信息用户（Coef0.63）对农民将香蕉生产商业化有积极影响。该研究得出结论，肯尼亚梅鲁地区小农户的推广营销联系与香蕉商业化之间存在关联。政府应该制定并实施更多有利于和鼓励农民将香蕉商业化的政策。这将帮助农民增加收入。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Agricultural Extension AGRONOMY-

CiteScore

1.10

自引率

25.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： The Journal of Agricultural Extension (JAE) is devoted to the advancement of knowledge of agricultural extension services and practice through the publication of original and empirically based research, focusing on; extension administration and supervision, programme planning, monitoring and evaluation, diffusion and adoption of innovations; extension communication models and strategies; extension research and methodological issues; nutrition extension; extension youth programme; women-in-agriculture; extension, Climate Change and the environment, ICT, innovation systems. JAE will normally not publish articles based on research covering very small geographic area that cannot feed into policy except they present critical insights into emerging agricultural innovations.