Factors affecting participation rates in farming in the rural areas of South Africa. case of Amathole District Municipality

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dc.contributor.authorZamxaka, Xolisa
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-17T07:53:53Z
dc.date.available2016-08-17T07:53:53Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractSouth Africa and the rest of developing countries are faced with poverty and poor rural development. Rural participation in agricultural activities is one of the components that can be used to address the poverty challenge facing the people residing in rural areas. The broad objective of this research is to determine factors affecting participation rate in farming in the rural areas of Amathole District Municipality of Eastern Cape. In this study stratified random sampling method was applied in order to choose a sample out of 30 households that were interviewed 13 people belonged to Participants and 17 people belonged to non-Participants. The results from this study show that women participate a lot in farming activities. The multiple regression model was used to test the participation rates of the people in Amathole region specifically Phumlani area. A number of variables were considered in this study to assess the impact of different variables on participation in farming activities. The results showed that about 57% of the respondents are not participating in farming while 43% of the respondents participate. The farming participants that were interviewed all claim that there is a lack in farming support in the area. When there is no support of any kind, rural people would not be motivated to start development projects on their own. Consequently, this lack of farming support in the Phumlani area may have an influence on the number of farming participants. Therefore, the lack of support in the area may serve as a motivation for non-participants not to be influenced to farm. Rural farming needs to be promoted amongst the youth so as to protect and sustain agricultural growth in rural areas. The study has discovered that the youth of Phumlani is not actively involved in farming activities. Government can provide community members with farming resources so as to promote farming in the area. It would be wiser for the government to provide physical farming resources and implements rather than cash grants.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/320
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Fort Hareen_ZA
dc.subjectAmathole, Agriculture, Participants, Non-participants, Phumlani village, rural areas, Poverty, Farmingen_ZA
dc.subjectAgricultural systems -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
dc.subjectFamily farms -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
dc.subjectRural development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
dc.subjectRural families -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
dc.subjectSustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
dc.subjectEconomic development projects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
dc.subjectFood security -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
dc.subjectFarms, Small -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
dc.subjectCommunity development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
dc.subjectPoverty -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
dc.titleFactors affecting participation rates in farming in the rural areas of South Africa. case of Amathole District Municipalityen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA

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