[HTML][HTML] Determinants of Irish potato (Solanum tuberosum) commercialization and market participation by farmers in Nyandarua County, Kenya

D Wakaba, J Ateka, R Mbeche, L Oyugi - Journal of Agriculture and Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
Agricultural commercialization has been promoted as a pathway for enhancing household
welfare in developing countries. This paper assesses the extent and determinants of …

Technical efficiency and technology gap in Kenya's tea industry: accounting for farm heterogeneity

V Ngeno - Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The study used a cross-county survey from Kenya to investigate smallholder tea farmers'
performance using a stochastic metafrontier framework. According to the results, farmers in …

Contract Farming and Smallholder Farmer Productivity in Northern Ghana: Does Farm Size Matter?

M Ayamga - Ghana Journal of Science, Technology and …, 2023 - ajol.info
Data seems to suggest that smallholder's share of area under cultivation in Ghana and
Africa in general, is declining while medium-scale farms are increasing rapidly. Without any …

An analysis of the determinants of productivity of Assam tea growers

R Mohapatra, B Lama - SN Business & Economics, 2024 - Springer
Amidst low productivity and declining share of the Assam tea sector in All India production,
an increasing number of small tea growers (STGs) with a higher yield rate relative to the big …