Analyzing the Determinants and Extent of Crop Diversification among Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Kirinyaga Central and East Sub-Counties, Kirinyaga County, Kenya

Micheni Pauline Kananu (), Gathungu Geofrey Kingori and Muriithi Dennis K.
Additional contact information
Micheni Pauline Kananu: Department of Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Education and Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Chuka University, Chuka, Kenya
Gathungu Geofrey Kingori: Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Chuka University, Chuka, Kenya
Muriithi Dennis K.: Department of Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Chuka University, Chuka, Kenya

Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development, 2024, vol. 72, issue 2, 201-217

Abstract: Crop diversification is a potential strategy that farmers can employ to address household food insecurity and low farm incomes. Smallholder coffee farmers face low and insufficient levels of crop diversification in Kirinyaga East and Central Sub-Counties, Kirinyaga County, Kenya. This study examines those factors that influence household decisions to diversify crops and further attempts to analyze the factors that influence the extent to which diversification takes place among smallholder coffee farmers. The study was guided by utility theory and used a descriptive survey design. Structured questionnaires were used to collect the survey data and a sample size of 408 smallholder farmers was chosen using multistage sampling procedure. The crop diversification index was 0.390 on average. Cragg's double-hurdle model findings at the first stage of the model revealed that there was a positive and significant relationship at p

Keywords: smallholder farmer; Crop diversification; Cragg's double-hurdle model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.17306/j.jard.2024.01744 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:pojard:v:72:y:2024:i:2:p:201-217:n:1001

DOI: 10.17306/j.jard.2024.01744

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development is currently edited by Agnieszka Baer-Nawrocka

More articles in Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().