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The Development Of Smallholder Tea Production In Tanzania: An Economic Analysis Of Factors Influencing Green Leaf Tea Output, Joseph Tarmo Nagu
The Development Of Smallholder Tea Production In Tanzania: An Economic Analysis Of Factors Influencing Green Leaf Tea Output, Joseph Tarmo Nagu
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This study focused on smallholder tea production as one strategy for Tanzanian economic development. The central research question was the economic evaluation of the potential of this strategy for increasing peasant farmer income streams in an economy comprised of mostly subsistence farming.
Two objectives were: (1) the assessment of the extent to which selected production factors explain the variability in the annual output of green tea leaf (output) and (2) the estimation of the physical resource productivities and the computation of marginal value products (MVP's) of selected resources for a sample 150 smallholder tea farms in Njombe, Tanzania to determine …