dc.contributor.author | Behangana, Octavious | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-18T09:46:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-12-18T09:46:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-09-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Behangana, O. (2023). Examining the socio-economic factors affecting tea growing in Kyamuhunga sub-county, Bushenyi district [unpublished undergraduate thesis]. Makerere University, Kampala. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/17884 | |
dc.description | A special project report submitted to the Department of Agribusiness and Natural Resource Economics in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of a Degree of Bachelor of Agribusiness Management of Makerere University. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The study aimed at examining the factors affecting tea productivity in Kyamuhunga Sub County, Bushenyi district. The study applied both qualitative and quantitative approaches which included a population comprised farmers. Data was collected using a questionnaire administered by the researcher himself and interviews with the respondents. The study established that the major factors influencing tea growing in Kyamuhunga sub county are land availability as mentioned by
18.3% of the total respondents, farm inputs mentioned by 15%, transport facilities mentioned by
11.7%, while climate and processing facilities were mentioned by 10% each of the total respondents interviewed. Other factors included credit accessibility as mentioned by 3.3%, soils and tea variety as mentioned by 6.7% each, market as mentioned by 8.3% of the total respondents. The recommendations from the study were that the government should try to subsidize farm inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, so as to allow easy access by the farmers and hence increase tea productivity. Other recommendations included regulation of interest rates on loans from financial institutions, mass sensitization of tea growers on the most efficient methods of tea farming and formation of tea grower associations. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Makerere University | en_US |
dc.subject | Socio-economic factors | en_US |
dc.subject | Tea growing | en_US |
dc.subject | Kyamuhunga sub-county | en_US |
dc.subject | Bushenyi district | en_US |
dc.title | Examining the socio-economic factors affecting tea growing in Kyamuhunga sub-county, Bushenyi district. | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |