Assessment of the Determinants of Adoption of Certified Rice Seed in Zambézia Province, Mozambique

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Agricultural production in developing countries plays an important role in ensuring food and nutrition security as well as in reducing poverty. Therefore the improvement and increase in the level of adoption of agricultural technologies, essentially among smallholder farmers, seems to be a key to enhance production and productivity in developing countries. Certified Seed remains one of the most important inputs in agricultural production and directly influencing agricultural productivity, and maximizing other inputs. The main objective of the current study was to assess the determinants factors of adoption of certified rice seed by farmers in Zambezia province, Mozambique. About 300 farmers in 3 districts were target as respondents in questionnaires to collect the primary data. In this study the dependent variable is binary (adopter and non-adopter) and dependent variables by using selected socio-economic variables. The result show that approximately 12% of respondents use Certified Seed, and concluded that the variables such as level of education, access to credit, availability and access to agro-dealers, the source of obtaining seed, the production system, and the access of assistance by extension services are statistically significant, which mean they are more likely have a chance to influence the adoption of Certified Rice Seed in Zambézia province.

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