Abstract: Agriculture sector has a very important impact in development of the countries especially for Low developed countries. The main objective of this research was to assess the contribution of contract farming in improving socio-economic development of rural farmers in Rwanda, case study of UCOCUAN (cooperative union) pineapple growers in Ngoma District. A sample size of 63 respondents to be employed for the identified target population was scientifically computed. Linear and OLS models have been used to estimate a relationship between dependent variable and independents variables. The methods of analysis used were descriptive statistics and regression analysis to estimate the parameters of the agricultural mobile services function through SPSS (16.0) and STATA (13.0) software. The result of the regression analysis indicated that assess the contribution of contract farming in improving socio-economic development of rural farmers in Rwanda is statistically significant. A p-value of 0.0000 tells us that our model as a whole fits significantly better than an empty model. Based on theses objectives, the first hypothesis indicated that there was a significant contribution of contract farming on sustainable production of pineapples in the improvement of socio-economic development of pineapple growers in Rwanda a case study of Ngoma district at 1% level and 5 % level respectively where (p-values <0.05). According to the findings of the model, the factors (such as X1, X2, X3, and x4,) have significantly contributed to high market profit of pineapple production in study area. The results indicated that contract farming has been contributed significantly to Payment of school fees(x1), payment of medical insurance(x2), installation of water/ electricity(x4), money saving(x5), and buying other foods at a 1% level. According to the findings of the model, the second hypothesis indicated the contract farming has significantly contributed to different independent variables such as(x1, x2, x4, x5, and X7,). However, the contract farming has more contribution on farmers’ user than no users. An increase in number of contract farming for farmer for sure the pineapple production will be sustained in Rwanda especially in the rural areas of Ngoma district.
Keywords: contribution, farming, Agriculture, pineapple growers.
Title: THE CONTRIBUTION OF CONTRACT FARMING IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF PINEAPPLE PRODUCTION IN RWANDA: CASE STUDY OF UCOCUAN IN NGOMA DISTRICT
Author: NTEZIMANA MUSERUKA Joseph, Dr Peter Mbabazi, Dr. Jaya Shukla
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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