Dataset on assessment of Youth Involvement in Horticulture Agribusiness in Tanzania: A case study of Njombe Region

This study test the hypotheses that male and female youth experience the same crop losses in their involvement in horticulture. Kruskal-Wallis test shows that male and female youth experience different crop losses in their involvement in horticulture, whereby male experience higher losses compare to their female counterpart. This probably because females are the ones who practice most postharvest activities like sorting and grading compared with their male counterparts. This study also assessed factors which influence youth involvement in horticulture postharvest management. Ordered Logit results shows that factors that positively and significantly influence youth involvement in horticulture postharvest management are primary school education, Form IV and above, management innovation, access to credit, good perception of horticulture for agribusiness and improved packaging materials. On the other hand, factors that negatively and significant influencing youth involvement in horticulture postharvest management are gender female and farm size.

本研究旨在验证如下假说：参与园艺产业（horticulture）的青年男性与青年女性所遭遇的作物损失水平并无差异。经克鲁斯卡尔-沃利斯检验（Kruskal-Wallis test）发现，参与园艺产业的青年男女所遭遇的作物损失存在显著差异，其中男性的作物损失水平高于女性青年。究其原因，可能在于相较于男性青年，女性青年更多地从事分选、分级等采后活动。本研究同时评估了影响青年参与园艺产业采后管理的相关因素。有序Logit模型（Ordered Logit）的结果显示，对青年参与园艺产业采后管理具有正向显著影响的因素包括：小学学历、Form IV及以上学历、管理创新、信贷获取渠道、对园艺作为农业企业的良好认知，以及改良包装材料。另一方面，对青年参与园艺产业采后管理具有负向显著影响的因素为：女性性别与农场规模。