Factors influencing the intensity of market participation by smallholder farmers: A case study of rural and peri-urban areas of Kenya

By J. Omiti, D. Otieno, T. Nyanamba, E. McCullough. 2009

363 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Smallholder Farmers’ Decision and Level of Participation in the Potato Market in Uganda (2014, background): “[27] also asserted that better output price and market information were key incentives for increased sales in the market, while household size and non-farm income significantly reduced the sales of vegetables in the market.”
• MARKET PARTICIPATION DECISION OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS AND ITS DETERMINANTS IN BANGLADESH (2015, background): “Socioeconomic characteristics such as age, education, farm size, ownership of some assets and output were observed to have positive effect on market participation of various agricultural commodities (Olwande, Mathenge, 2012; Omiti et al., 2009; Randela et al., 2008).”
• Market participation of smallholder maize farmers in the upper west region of Ghana (2014, background): “This confirms the finding of Siziba et al. (2011) and Omiti et al. (2009).”
• Commercialization of smallholder agriculture in Ghana: A Tobit regression analysis (2012, background): “This result confirms the findings by Olwande et al. (2010) and Omiti et al. (2009) that output price is an incentive for sellers to supply more maize in the market.”
• The Role of Smallholder Farms in a Changing World (2020, background): “Lack of information (regarding price, supply and demand, and quality standards) leads smallholder farmers to face higher prices from opportunistic middlemen and traders, as well as lowermarket participation (Omiti et al. 2009).”
• Analysis of the Factors Influencing Market Participation among Smallholder Rice Farmers in Magway Region, Central Dry Zone of Myanmar (2018, background): “[11] found that output price had a positive impact on the intensity of market participation among maize and kale producers in peri-urban Kenya.”