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and storage technologies that enhance its yield, nutritional value and resistance to infestations and infections be available to the farm households.
3.4.5 The implication of gender, formal education and age of heads of farm households on maize consumption
Relationships between years of formal education, age and gender of heads of households, and the frequency at which maize meals were consumed in Katumba ward were investigated using Pearson product-moment correlation and no significant relationships were found. This implies that the farm households’ preference of maize meals above other types of food was not influenced by the level of formal education, age or gender of farm household heads.
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nutrients that are deficient in maize are necessary in this ward. Furthermore, the majority of farm households in Katumba ward run out of maize before the next harvest season. This impacts negatively on the farm households’ availability of preferred food, which would naturally create anxiety among households’ members thus, render them vulnerable and food insecure.
In order to ensure availability of maize for longer periods of time, it is critically important that appropriate farming and storage technologies be made available to the farm households so that maximum amounts of maize per unit of land can be obtained. It is also recommended that appropriate agricultural policy should be implemented by the government of Tanzania in order to ensure availability of technologies that make it possible for the farm households to achieve high quality maize production and storage.
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