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Realizing Farmer’s Objective - Vital to Adoption Process of Fish Farming Technology. The Case of Selected Villages in Eastern Tanzania
Kitojo Wetengere
Corresponding Author: Kitojo Wetengere
Submitted: 2010 January, 04
Accepted: 2010 January, 10
Published: 2010 March, 10 |
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This study was conducted to investigate how realizing farmer’s objective has an influence on the
adoption process of fish farming technology in Eastern Tanzania. A survey design was employed to collect data
from 410 respondents randomly sampled from 25 villages. The study population comprised of non-adopters,
continue-adopters and adopters-abandoned. Instruments used for data collection included questionnaire,
Participatory Rural Appraisal, researchers’ observations and secondary information sources. Descriptive
statistics was used to report findings and data was validated by mean percentages. The results showed that
farmers adopted fish farming in order to obtain fish for domestic consumption and for sale. However, while
most women gave more priority to fish as food, more men gave priority to fish as a cash crop. Farmers who
realized their objectives continued and intensified fish farming technology. Conversely, those who did not
realize their objectives abandoned or practiced low level technology. Farmer’s objectives were not realized due
to poor production technology, harvest strategy and the nature of the product. Accordingly, non-adopters were
reluctant to adopt fish farming because the technology did no have significant impact on the adopter’s
well-being. This finding suggests that farmer’s objective and priority should be known before introduction of
the technology and efforts should be directed towards realizing the objectives. Additionally, efforts should be
made to improve production technology, preparation and preservation skills and harvest strategies. Finally, any
analysis focusing on realizing farmer’s objectives and priority should not be generalized but should be gender
disaggregated.
Key words: Farmer’s objective, fish farming adoption, food, income security, , ,
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Kitojo Wetengere, . Realizing Farmer’s Objective - Vital to Adoption Process of Fish Farming Technology. The Case of Selected Villages in Eastern Tanzania. Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology, (2): Page No: 116-124.
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ISSN (Online): 2042-4876
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