Assessment of the Factors Influencing the Irish Potato Producers’ Market Channel Choice in Rwanda: A Case of Study Musanze District

Faustine Dusabe; Patrick Mulyungi; Eucabeth Majiwa

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Assessment of the Factors Influencing the Irish Potato Producers’ Market Channel Choice in Rwanda: A Case of Study Musanze District

Faustine Dusabe, Patrick Mulyungi, Eucabeth Majiwa

Published in International Journal of Agricultural Economics (Volume 8, Issue 4)

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Agriculture plays an important role in the economic growth and development prospects of a vast majority of developing countries including Rwanda. Market channel choice makes important contributions to the incomes and other livelihood attributes among smallholder farmers in these countries. The main aim of this study was to assess the factors influencing the Irish potato producer’s to choice a market channel in Rwanda. A case study Musanze District. A multistage sampling procedure was specifically used to select Musanze district form five composed Northern Province. Four Irish potato producers in each village were randomly selected using simple random sampling to give a total sample size of 209 respondents interviewed in study area. Both descriptive statistics and the multinomial logistic regression model were used to analyse data that was collected from Irish potato producers in study area. The results of the study showed that the majority of respondents were male. The findings showed that the majority of respondents are in range 46-55 years followed by the range of 56 years. The result of Multinomial Logit regression analysis showed that education level, household size, land size, and the quantity produced were significant at p< 0.01 to influence Irish potato producers to choice direct consumer as market channel. However, the results also showed that also five variables such as age, land size, quantity produced, price of produce as well as mode of payment had positive and significant influence on the Irish potato producers to choose retailers as market channel. Lastly, seven factors namely gender, education level, household size, farming experience, quantity produced, quantity sold, and price of produce were found to be positive and had significant influence on the Irish potato producers to choose other markets as market channel. Based on the findings from this study, the researcher recommended that adequate market information should be provided to the Irish potato producers through existing sources such as extension officers, agronomist, local authorities, and associations/cooperatives as well as to increase producer’s income and improve their livelihood.

Published in	International Journal of Agricultural Economics (Volume 8, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijae.20230804.15
Page(s)	161-167
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Faustine Dusabe, Patrick Mulyungi, Eucabeth Majiwa. Assessment of the Factors Influencing the Irish Potato Producers’ Market Channel Choice in Rwanda: A Case of Study Musanze District. Int J Agric Econ. 2023;8(4):161-167. doi: 10.11648/j.ijae.20230804.15

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Faustine Dusabe

Department of Agriculture and Resources Economic, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi, Kenya
Patrick Mulyungi

Department of Agriculture and Resources Economic, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi, Kenya
Eucabeth Majiwa

Department of Agriculture and Resources Economic, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Nairobi, Kenya

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