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| Demographic Factors Influencing Uptake of Farming Technologies Among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Mvomero District, Tanzania
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William A. Laswai, Bernard B. Mlilile, Abel F. Moshi
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Abstract:
Despite of growing recognition of importance of farming technologies in crop production, the adoption of farming technologies at farm level is yet questionable and smallholder farmers continued to have low yield of maize. This simply means smallholder farmers need to adopt technologies if they want to enhance maize production and improve their food security and income generation. This paper evaluated the implication of demographic factors on adoption of farming technologies in maize production in Mvomero district – Tanzania. The study used simple randomly technique to choose 180 smallholder farmers of maize. The questionnaire was employed to collected data while analysis was performed by logit regression. The major finding of the study suggests that age, gender, education and experience of smallholder farmers play vital role in adoption of farming technologies in maize production. The study further reveals that education and experience of smallholders increases the adoption of farming technologies. The study also confirms that increases of age of smallholder farmers are associated with decreases the adoption of farming technologies in maize production. The magnitude of effect of experience on adoption of farming technologies was largely compared to gender and education. The study emphasize that, policy makers and other stakeholders should consider experience, education and gender while planning for dissemination of agricultural technologies. It is also advised that, older people must less given priority in planning for dissemination of farming technologies in maize production.
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