Agricultural production and food consumption of mountain farmers in Tanzania: a case study of Kiboguwa village in Uluguru Mountains

Table 1 Two different cereals percentage of cultivation households, cultivation area, amount of seeding and yields

	Surveyed household	Non-cultivated households*		Cultivated lands	Number of cultivated lands	Area size of cultivated lands	S:Amount of sowing	Amount of seed per area	Y:Yield per household	Productivity
	(households)	(households)	(%)	(number/household)	(number/household)	(acre/household)*²	(kg/household)	(kg/acre)	(kg/household)	(kg/acre)
(a) Rice
2005
Kiseneke	20	1	5.0	20	1.1	0.5	10.6	21.2	94.3	188.6
Changa	1	0	0.0	1	1.0	2.0	25.0	12.5	19.5	9.8
Mungi	10	0	0.0	13	1.3	1.3	7.4	5.7	102.5	78.8
Ludewa	10	1	10.0	10	1.1	2.1	4.9	2.3	99.8	47.5
Total	41	2		44
Average			4.9		1.1	1.5	12.0	10.4	79.0	81.2
2006
Kiseneke	16	0	0.0	21	1.3	1.5	22.5	14.6	118.9	77.3
Changa	23	0	0.0	25	1.1	1.2	22.4	19.4	105.8	91.6
Mungi	18	1	5.6	17	1.0	1.1	15.7	14.2	101.4	91.6
Ludewa	22	0	0.0	27	1.2	1.4	18.4	12.8	102.8	71.8
Total	79*³	1		90
Average			1.3		1.2	1.3	19.8	15.3	107.2	83.1

	Surveyed household	Non-cultivated households*		Cultivated lands	Number of cultivated lands	Area size of cultivated lands	S:Amount of sowing	Amount of seed per area	Y:Yield per household	Productivity
	(households)	(households)	(%)	(number/household)	(number/household)	(acre/household)*	(kg/household)	(kg/acre)	(kg/household)	(kg/acre)
(b) Maize
2005
Kiseneke	20	1	5.0	24	1.3	1.5	4.3	2.9	103.4	68.9
Changa	1	0	0.0	1	1.0	1.5	4.0	2.7	37.5	25.0
Mungi	10	2	20.0	7	0.9	1.6	1.7	1.0	108.5	66.8
Ludewa	10	6	60.0	4	1.0	1.5	2.8	1.8	195.0	130.0
Total	41	9		36
Average			22.0		1.0	1.5	3.2	2.1	111.1	72.7
2006
Kiseneke	16	1	0.0	21	1.5	1.5	12.9	8.9	157.5	108.6
Changa	23	2	8.7	21	1.2	1.2	6.7	5.6	127.5	107.4
Mungi	18	5	27.8	13	0.9	0.9	4.2	4.5	77.0	82.1
Ludewa	22	13	59.1	9	1.6	1.7	4.8	2.8	206.7	121.6
Total	79	21		64
Average			26.6		1.3	1.3	7.1	5.4	142.2	104.9

*Households which have not cultivated rice or maize in the year surveyed
*²People in this area use acre when they explain area size. So in this paper, acre is used as a unit of area size of the cultivated lands
*³Data of five households out of the 84 households were omitted from this analysis of Table 1 due to some loss of data

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