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Institutional and Social Economic Factors Affecting Productivity of Maize in Kenya: A Case of Transzoia and Machakos Counties
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Mogeni, Evans Geoffrey |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Maize is the global leading cereal in terms of production, planted on over 184 million hectares globally with 1,016 million metric tonnes. Kenya has the potential to be self-reliant and can produce surplus to export to other countries. Specifically, the country has the comparative advantage of producing maize compared to other maize producing countries particularly her neighbours, but her maize production is not adequate to feed the population and the imports of maize to bridge the deficit is undermining the achievement of the national agenda under the Kenya Vision 2030. The purpose for this study was to investigate institutional and social economic factors affecting the realization of optimum productivity of maize in Kenya, case of Transzoia and Machakos counties. The study adopted descriptive survey design which was used to obtain information to describe the existing phenomena. The target population was farmers in the two counties. The examining system utilized was the multistage stratified arbitrary inspecting strategy. Data collection was done through the use of questionnaire, focus group discussion and interview schedule. The study found that maize productivity is affected positively by the land of size, amount of seed planted, amount of fertilizer used and amount of pesticide used. The study revealed that amount of manure and human labour used were statistically insignificance hence they can excluded in the model. The study also found that credit access in Machakos County had positive influence on maize productivity and was significant at 5% level. The results indicated that a unit increase in the access to credit maize productivity by 13.046 units. The other variables that had positive significant influence on maize productivity include farming experience, extension services, group membership, education level of the farmer, size of the family and household income. This study concludes that the government should ensure that the farmers get farm inputs in time and at good price in order to enable them produce more crops. The government should also seal the corruption that is in the sector by having specific anticorruption measures. This will grow the economy and therefore address the issue of unemployment. On addition the government should put more money on the sector of agriculture to ensure there is an easy working channel by the farmers to improve maize production and also consider to revise the Land tenure system. |
| Starting Page | 8632 |
| Ending Page | 8632 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.29322/ijsrp.9.02.2019.p8632 |
| Volume Number | 9 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0219/ijsrp-p8632.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.29322/ijsrp.9.02.2019.p8632 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
