April 2008

Socio-economic factors influencing adoption of improved fallow practices among smallholder farmers in western Tanzania

  Declining soil fertility is recognized as one of the major biophysical constraints affecting agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa. “Improved fallows” technology, a leguminous trees-based soil replenishment technology was introduced in smallholder farming system in Tanzania to address this problem. The objective of this study was to identify the factors that influence the adoption of the...

Author(s): P .Z. Matata, O.C.Ajayil, P.A.Oduol and Aggrey Agumya