Abstract:
Vegetables are one of the cornerstones of human nutrition, vital for a healthy and
balanced diet and generation of income. However, in most developing countries
especially in Africa, vegetable businesses frequently face problems such as highly
skewed production, untrained labor, shortage of standardized products, and
absence of processing and packing facilities. This study examined the performance
of vegetable market vendors at Kawe market in Kinondoni District, Dar es salaam.
Specifically, the study intended to assess the factors affecting vegetable vendor
incomes generated from vegetable business. The study therefore sought to
establish whether sex, age, education level, experience and cash from other
sources of income have effects on the incomes generated from vegetable
business. Simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to get a
total of 75 respondents. A regression analysis was performed using statistics and
data programmer (stata) for the analysis of quantitative data. Findings revealed
that sex, age, years of experience and income from other sources of income had a
low p-value (< 0.05) implying that, these factors had impact in the vendors’ total
income from the vegetable business, except the education level of vendors (p value > 0.05). Government agencies should provide education and loan
guarantees to vegetable business vendors to help them grow.
