Social economic factors determining of tree planting at household level in Tanzania: the case study of Morogoro Region
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2010
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University of Dar es Salaam
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This study was intended to determine and analyze the factors influences household to plant tree in Tanzania, taking Morogoro region as the case study. The analysis utilized secondary data (cross-sectional) from Sample Census of Agriculture 2002/2003 in Morogoro region, which was collected through extracting needed variables from the named survey that solicited for information on household demographic and socio-economic factors and the decisions of whether or not to plant tree. In determining these factors, a number of household demographic and socio-economic factors were modeled with Logit model on whether the household during the survey planted tree or not using the logistic regression analysis. The study reveals that: age, land ownership pattern, and land use are important factors that are increasing the propensity to plant tree at the family level, while, increased income, older aged people, gender and extension services impact negatively the decisions to plant trees, and except age squared they do not match the hypothesized expectation signs, that is, age of head of household negatively impacting the tree planting decisions. Livestock holding, education level of the household head, access and use of resources (access to market) and number of household members were found to be insignificant to explain the tree planting decisions at household level. The study concludes that, age, land ownership and land use, income and extension services and age of head of household needs exceptional considerations as they influences household to take decisions in tree planting significantly. The study reveal clear pattern that, if the household owns larger area land for mixed crops that is banana, coffee and trees encourages household to plant trees. The study recommends that; for successful planting trees activities at household level, a number of factors must be considered.
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Tree planting, Households, Morogoro region, Tanzania
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Youngson, Z (2010) Social economic factors determining of tree planting at household level in Tanzania: the case study of Morogoro Region. Master dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam. Available at http://41.86.178.3/internetserver3.1.2/detail.aspx