Smallholder Coffee Productivity as Affected by Socioeconomic Factors and Technology Adoption

Despite the increase in area under coffee Kenya last decade, productivity has been on decline. Numerous production technologies have developed through on-station research but there limited on-farm to assess impact of these at farm level. On other hand, smallholder farmers are endowed differently and this would positively or negatively affect adoption recommended hence productivity. This study was carried out evaluate effects socioeconomic factors technology The employed stratified random sampling where 376 were randomly sampled from six cooperative societies which had preselected using probability proportional size technique. analyzed stochastic Cobb-Douglas function. revealed that off-farm income, access credit, type land tenure, significant positive Therefore, should be encouraged diversify their income sources embrace credit financing, as government reviews use policies avail adequate agricultural land. further application rates manure, fungicides, pesticides therefore enhanced among small-scale improve