Table 2.
Agro-dealer coverage and input access per district
| Total | Hai | Hanang | Mbulu | Siha | Mbeya | Mufindi | Mbozi | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of agrodealers | 299 | 23 | 24 | 27 | 27 | 89 | 27 | 82 |
| Agro-dealer / farmer household ratio | 1 / 1619 | 1 / 1870 | 1 / 2014 | 1 / 1898 | 1 / 978 | 1 / 1073 | 1 / 2919 | 1 / 1716 |
| Average farmer travel time to an agro-dealer (minutes) | 59 | 39 | 57 | 80 | 39 | 42 | 97 | 38 |
| % of farmers within 30 min travel time | 40% | 53% | 36% | 37% | 53% | 48% | 40% | 63% |
| % of farmers within 1 h travel time | 74% | 72% | 80% | 75% | 77% | 74% | 74% | 71% |
| Agro-dealer clusters | 102 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 25 | 18 | 22 |
| Average cluster size | 2.9 | 2.6 | 1.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 3.7 |
| Agro-dealer competition | ||||||||
| No competition (%) | 18.1% | 21.7% | 33.3% | 11.1% | 3.7% | 3.7% | 48.1% | 13.4% |
| 1–2 competitors (%) | 22.4% | 17.4% | 37.5% | 25.9% | 25.9% | 25.9% | 33.3% | 20.7% |
| 3–5 competitors (%) | 15.4% | 21.7% | 0.0% | 22.2% | 40.7% | 40.7% | 18.5% | 9.8% |
| 6–10 competitors (%) | 17.7% | 39.1% | 29.2% | 40.7% | 29.6% | 29.6% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| >10 competitors (%) | 26.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 37.1% | 0.0% | 56.1% |
| Input availability at agro-dealer (%) | ||||||||
| Maize seeds | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Other seeds | 68% | 87% | 83% | 89% | 89% | 62% | 70% | 50% |
| Fertilizer | 74% | 96% | 33% | 56% | 96% | 70% | 96% | 77% |
| Herbicide | 75% | 91% | 79% | 56% | 100% | 74% | 67% | 72% |
| Pesticide | 81% | 91% | 96% | 96% | 100% | 72% | 85% | 70% |
| Foliar feeds | 65% | 83% | 79% | 74% | 85% | 58% | 67% | 51% |
| Farm tools | 52% | 52% | 54% | 59% | 78% | 47% | 59% | 44% |
| Veterinary chemicals | 42% | 43% | 83% | 85% | 59% | 30% | 30% | 28% |
| Livestock feeds | 19% | 35% | 29% | 22% | 11% | 18% | 26% | 11% |
| # maize seed varieties per store | 7.4 (4.6) | 9.0 (5.6) | 8.4 (3.9) | 12.1 (4.7) | 9.4 (4.4) | 5.7 (4.5) | 4.9 (3.2) | 7.2 (3.5) |
| # fertilizer types per store | 4.8 (2.2) | 3.9 (1.6) | 2.9 (1.4) | 4.1 (2.3) | 4.6 (2.1) | 5.1 (2.3) | 5.6 (2.9) | 5.0 (2.0) |
Source: Agro-dealer survey data collected by authors in 2019. Agro-dealer / farmer household ratio is calculated using estimated farm households per district from the 2007/8 Tanzanian National Agricultural Sample Census data, after incorporating estimated rural population growth rates to generate estimated numbers of farm households in 2019