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| Factors Influencing Smallholder Tomato Producers Adoption To Modern Agricultural Technologies in Kilolo District, Iringa Region, Tanzania
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Asheri Mwaipungu, Frank Philipo , Agnes Nzali
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Abstract:
Tomato is the most useful vegetables in the world and has been contributed smallholder farmers to household income. In Africa, tomato is the most useful vegetables and is produced in rural and urban areas. The aim of this study was to find out the factors influencing smallholder tomato producer's adoption to modern Agricultural technologies in Kilolo District, Iringa region, Tanzania. The data were collected through interview, focus group discussion, questionnaire, and documentary review from 60 respondent and analyzed by using SPSS version 26.0 and deductive approach method. The study found that low adoption of agricultural technology is influenced by demographic characteristics of respondents and economic factors such as low credit accessibility, unstable tomato products market due to price fluctuation and high price of modern agricultural technologies. The study recommends that efforts and resources should be directed towards enabling adoption of modern agricultural technologies and creating awareness of effectiveness of modern agricultural technologies and the government should work on reducing the cost of irrigation technologies by increasing incentives to that technology and make them easy to access.
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