PROGRSS REPORT EMBU

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PROGRSS REPORTEMBU

• J.O.Ouma1, J.Oduol1,F.M.Murithi2
• __________________________
• 1 Regional Research Centre Embu
• 2 KARI Headquarters Nairobi

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Background to study area

• 3 locations, 12 sub-locations and covers an area
  of 197.1 km2 .
• The study locations are Gaturi North and Ngandori
  .
• Kianjuki and Kavutiri extension units are in
  Gaturi North, while Mukangu and Manyatta are in
  Ngandori location. The major zones are UM1 and
  UM2. UM1 is the coffee tea zone.

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Background.contd

• It lies at an altitude 1590m to 1830m above sea-
  level and annual rainfall is between 1400mm to
  1830mm. Two rainy seasons long rains (mid March
  to July) and short rains (mid October to
  December). The Climatic conditions are favorable
  for coffee, tea and maize.

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Background.contd

• Upper Midland 2(UM2) is the main coffee zone).

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ACHIEVEMENTS

• Retracing of households, replacements and
  supplemental households
• Implementation of surveys (module 1 part 1 and
  2), data entry and cleaning and preliminary
  analysis

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Tracing households

• 99 out of 113 households intereviewed in the
  baseline survey of 1998 were identified. Out
  of the 99 households identified, one migrated to
  a different location from the study area reducing
  the number of households traced to 98. This gives
  a sample attrition rate of 13.3.

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Tracing household..contd

• The 14 housholds that were not identified in
  Manyatta and Kianjuki extension units were
  replaced. In Kianjuki 11 households were
  replaced including 2 supplemental households
  while in Manyatta extension unit 4 households
  were replaced including 2 supplemental
  households. In Mukangu and Kavitiri extension
  units only supplemental households were added to
  the list of farmers to be interviewed.

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Tracing households..contd

• The replaced households were randomly selected
  from a list of farmers generated for each
  sublocation by the local extension staff and
  sub-chiefs/sub-area .

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Tracing of households
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Survey implementation

• Module 1questionnaire for long rains data 2002
  was divided into two parts
• Questions covered in module one part 1- household
  demographics, assets, livelihood and shocks
• 116 farmers responded
• Questions in module 1 part 2 - crop
  production(annual), livestock inventory,input and
  output market and consumption expenditure
• 115 farmers responded
• One farmer dropped out in part 2 because You
  are taking too much of my time and no benefit

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Survey data entry

• Data entry for module 1 part 1 and 2 is complete
  and data cleaning in progress
• The expenditure data was entered as a separate
  file and data cleaning is not complete

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SURVEYPRELIMINARY RESULTS
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Preliminary results

• Gender of household(627 responses)
• Males - 51
• Female 49
• Level of education(626)
• None 16.3
• Primary 48.7
• Secondary 27.0
• Middle level 7
• University 1

• Type of dwelling house
• mud wallthatched -0.9
• mud wallcorrugated-19.1
• Wood wallcorrugated- 69.6
• Stone wallcorrugated 10.4

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Preliminary resultscontd

• Source of energy
• _____
• Firewood- 67
• Firewood kerosene 17.4
• Firewoodcharcoal 12.2
• Firewoodsolar 0.9
• Firewoodkerosenegas 2.6

• Source of water
• ________
• Tap 54.4
• River/stream 22.8
• Borehole 0.9
• Tap river 21.1
• Borehole river 0.9

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Preliminary results.contdCrops grown
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Preliminary resultscontdLivestock enterprise
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Preliminary results .contdLand holding
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Preliminary resultscontdcurrent land use
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Preliminary results.contdLand allocation

• ________
• Maize 0.42 ha
• Beans 0.21 ha
• Irish potatoes 0.10 ha
• Others 0.29 ha
• ___________

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Preliminary resultscontsoil fertility status
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Preliminary results.contreasons for changes in
fertility
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Preliminary resultsFinancial stock

• Access to lending inst.
• Yes 80.9
• No 19.1
• ______________
• Major lending institution is Cooperative
• ________________
• Application for loan
• Yes 43.5
• No 56.5

• Saving with formal banking inst
• Yes 74.8
• No 25.2
• _______________
• Average mount borrowed
• KSH 2000-320,000
• Mean 45,585.17

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Survey implementation Module 2

• Pre-testing done
• Questionnaire divided into two parts
• Part 1 food crops and perennial crop production
• Part 2 agroforestry trees production, household
  incomes, expenditures and investment

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