An Assessment of Factors Influencing Forest Harvesting in Smallholder Tobacco Production in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe: An Application of Binary Logistic Regression Model
Joint Authors
Chagwiza, Godfrey
Chivuraise, Chipo
Chamboko, Tafireyi
Source
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 2016 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2016-01-21
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Deforestation is one of the major effects posed by the smallholder tobacco farming as the farmers heavily depend on firewood sourced from natural forest for curing tobacco.
The research aims at assessing the factors that influence the harvesting of natural forest in the production of tobacco.
Data is collected through the structured questionnaire from 60 randomly selected farmers.
Binary logistic regression model is used to explain the significance of factors influencing natural forest harvesting.
Results show that farmer experience, tobacco selling price, and agricultural training level negatively affect the harvesting of natural forests (to obtain firewood) for curing tobacco significantly (p<0.05).
However, gender, size of the household, tobacco yield, and level of education are insignificant (p>0.05) in influencing natural forest harvesting.
Though farmers are exploiting the environment and at the same time increasing foreign currency earning through tobacco production, there is therefore a need to put in place policies that encourage sustainable forest product utilization such as gum plantations, subsidizing price of coal, and introducing fees, as well as penalties or taxes to the offenders.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Chivuraise, Chipo& Chamboko, Tafireyi& Chagwiza, Godfrey. 2016. An Assessment of Factors Influencing Forest Harvesting in Smallholder Tobacco Production in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe: An Application of Binary Logistic Regression Model. Advances in Agriculture،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-5.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Chivuraise, Chipo…[et al.]. An Assessment of Factors Influencing Forest Harvesting in Smallholder Tobacco Production in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe: An Application of Binary Logistic Regression Model. Advances in Agriculture No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1094789
American Medical Association (AMA)
Chivuraise, Chipo& Chamboko, Tafireyi& Chagwiza, Godfrey. An Assessment of Factors Influencing Forest Harvesting in Smallholder Tobacco Production in Hurungwe District, Zimbabwe: An Application of Binary Logistic Regression Model. Advances in Agriculture. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1094789
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1094789