The issue of beef meat supply response is an important one as it has an impact on production, nut... more The issue of beef meat supply response is an important one as it has an impact on production, nutrition, and poverty alleviation. The traditional beef meat supply that characterizes the livestock sector of Burundi may be unsustainable in providing the desired amount of food meat to the growing population and may be chocked off by a stiff competition in the regional trade agreement, COMESA and EAC where South Africa, Botswana and Kenya are the leading beef meat suppliers. This paper mainly aims to determine factors affecting beef meat supply in Bujumbura based on the structural Nerlov paradigm. Time series analysis was used on annual data for a period of 40 years (1970-2010). Both co-integration and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) were used to fine tune the Nerlov model and determine the long-run and short-run relationships between the variables of interest. Empirical results show that the long-run relationship exists through co-integration tests and beef price supply is inelast...
This paper examines usefulness of secondary school agricultural knowledge in farm business manage... more This paper examines usefulness of secondary school agricultural knowledge in farm business management to small-scale farmers in rural Kenya. The study focused on the contribution of secondary school agriculture knowledge on rural agricultural productivity. The research used ex-post facto design. The author adopted the proportionate sampling technique. A total of 200 farmers were interviewed: 49 % of the farmers had obtained agriculture knowledge while 51% did not obtain agriculture knowledge at secondary school. The Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The observation showed that farmers with secondary school· agriculture knowledge perform better in crop and livestock management as compared to farmers without the secondary school agriculture knowledge. As such there is need to ensure that the mechanism is set in place to see into it that the time set for practical agriculture lessons indicated in the timetable is actually used for the purpose intended. The resu...
The issue of beef meat supply response is an important one as it has an impact on production, nut... more The issue of beef meat supply response is an important one as it has an impact on production, nutrition, and poverty alleviation. The traditional beef meat supply that characterizes the livestock sector of Burundi may be unsustainable in providing the desired amount of food meat to the growing population and may be chocked off by a stiff competition in the regional trade agreement, COMESA and EAC where South Africa, Botswana and Kenya are the leading beef meat suppliers. This paper mainly aims to determine factors affecting beef meat supply in Bujumbura based on the structural Nerlov paradigm. Time series analysis was used on annual data for a period of 40 years (1970-2010). Both co-integration and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) were used to fine tune the Nerlov model and determine the long-run and short-run relationships between the variables of interest. Empirical results show that the long-run relationship exists through co-integration tests and beef price supply is inelast...
This paper examines usefulness of secondary school agricultural knowledge in farm business manage... more This paper examines usefulness of secondary school agricultural knowledge in farm business management to small-scale farmers in rural Kenya. The study focused on the contribution of secondary school agriculture knowledge on rural agricultural productivity. The research used ex-post facto design. The author adopted the proportionate sampling technique. A total of 200 farmers were interviewed: 49 % of the farmers had obtained agriculture knowledge while 51% did not obtain agriculture knowledge at secondary school. The Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The observation showed that farmers with secondary school· agriculture knowledge perform better in crop and livestock management as compared to farmers without the secondary school agriculture knowledge. As such there is need to ensure that the mechanism is set in place to see into it that the time set for practical agriculture lessons indicated in the timetable is actually used for the purpose intended. The resu...
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