Do youth farmers benefit from participating in contract farming? Evidence from French beans youth farmers in Arusha, Tanzania

IF 1.6 4区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Agrekon Pub Date : 2022-09-04 DOI:10.1080/03031853.2022.2099917

M. E. Marwa, Julius Manda

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Contract farming (CF) is often seen as a system that enhances production efficiency leading to increased agricultural productivity and improved farmer livelihoods. However, there is a conflict in the literature on its impact on young farmers who are involved in farming in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper evaluates the impacts of CF on crop yield, crop and household income among the youth farmers involved in French bean farming in Tanzania using cross-sectional data of 273 households. The study employs an endogenous switching regression (ESR) model that accounts for observed and unobserved factors to estimate the impact of CF. Further, the propensity score matching (PSM) model is used to check the robustness of ESR results. The results indicate that 162 farmers had contracts and French bean yields and incomes significantly increased with CF. Specifically, the empirical results reveal that CF leads to a gain of 17%, 34% and 37.5% in the yield, crop income and household income. Participation and impact of contract farming differed according to different socio-economic/institutional variables, such as access to extension services.

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青年农民从参与合同农业中受益吗？坦桑尼亚阿鲁沙年轻农民种植蚕豆的证据

合同农业通常被视为一种提高生产效率、提高农业生产力和改善农民生计的制度。然而，关于其对撒哈拉以南非洲参与农业的年轻农民的影响，文献中存在冲突。本文利用273户家庭的横断面数据，评估了CF对坦桑尼亚参与蚕豆种植的青年农民的作物产量、作物和家庭收入的影响。该研究采用了内生转换回归（ESR）模型，该模型考虑了观察到的和未观察到的因素来估计CF的影响。此外，倾向得分匹配（PSM）模型用于检查ESR结果的稳健性。结果表明，162名农民签订了合同，随着CF的增加，蚕豆产量和收入显著增加。具体而言，经验结果表明，CF使产量、作物收入和家庭收入分别增加了17%、34%和37.5%。合同农业的参与程度和影响因不同的社会经济/体制变量而不同，例如获得推广服务的机会。

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Agrekon AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY-

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2.80

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7.70%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Agrekon publishes scholarly articles that contribute to the existing literature in the domain of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics as it applies to Southern Africa. The editors of Agrekon therefore invite contributions in this context that provide new insights, either through the problems they address, the methods they employ or the theoretical and practical insights gained from the results. The quarterly journal serves as the official publication of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA) and is published by Taylor & Francis.