Browsing by Author "Mattee, Amon Z"

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Challenges in promoting agricultural innovations under public- private partnership: experiences from a project on enhancing sunflower production for poverty alleviation in Mvomero and Kilosa districts, Morogoro, Tanzania
(Exclusive Journal publishing house, 2016) Mwajombe, Kizito Kayanda; Mattee, Amon Z; Mabebe, Ntumva Erasmus; Haule, Sylvester Charles; Malisa, Emmanuel T
Promoting agricultural innovations and technologies among smallholder farmers can be enhanced through Public Private Partnership (PPP). This study attempted to explore challenges faced while promoting agricultural innovations under PPP based on experiences from a project on Enhancing Sunflower Production in Kilosa and Mvomero Districts in Tanzania. Despite of the benefits attained by partners including farmers having an opportunity to learn new agronomic practices and learning by doing and testing new sunflower varieties through trials conducted under Farmer Field Schools, among the challenges identified include partners’ divergent objectives and expectations which stalled the whole process of partnership and necessitated a re-planning of the project
The use of schools for socioeconomic transformation: a study of Tanzanian secondary school students' beliefs, attitudes and aspirations toward farming and rural life
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983) Mattee, Amon Z
Purpose The purpose of the study was to assess Tanzanian secondary students' beliefs, attitudes and aspirations regarding farming and rural life, and how these relate to school agricultural experiences and to individual and situational characteristics of the students. Methodology Data were secured through a structured question naire administered to a sample of 867 Tanzanian government secondary school students. The dependent variables for the study were students' beliefs, attitudes and aspirations with respect to farming and rural life. The independent variables were the school agricultural learning experiences, the sex, grade and home location of the student, parental education and occupation, and type of farming at home. The analysis tested the relationship between the independent variables and students' beliefs, attitudes and aspirations toward farming and rural life.Ill Findings and Conclusions 1. Students’ beliefs were mainly positive while their attitudes were either positive or neutral, with very few having negative beliefs or attitudes. About one- third of the students aspired to agricultural careers including farming while half of them preferred working in the rural areas. 2. Although students who have had practical school agricultural experiences were more likely to hold positive beliefs, students' beliefs were more strongly related to home background characteristics. Students from rural farm background were more likely to hold positive beliefs. 3. Students who have had practical school agricul tural experiences were more likely to hold positive attitudes. Likewise, male and lower grade students were more likely to hold positive attitudes. Students’ attitudes were not related to home background character istics . 4. Generally, school agriculture seemed to influence students' aspirations toward rural-based agricultural occupations. But as students progressed up the academic hierarchy their aspirations shifted progressively to urban non-agricultural occupations. Also students fromIV less educated rural backgrounds were more Likely to aspire to rural agricultural occupations compared to those from more educated urban backgrounds. 5. Although school agriculture may help in reorienting students’ expectations toward rural and agricultural occupations, its effectiveness is severely limited since schools continue to be the sole basis for recruitment to elite positions and as such continue to socialize students toward more elitist expectations, contrary to policy objectives.