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  • Influence of Budget Allocation on Performance of Smallholder Tea Farming Project in Nyamira County, Kenya
     
    ► Stephen Moseria Mesa(Corresponding Author)
     stephenmesa9@gmail.com
     https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5504-5455

    ► Charles Mallans Rambo 
     crambo@uonbi.ac.ke 
    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0970-865X

    ► Angeline Sabina Mulwa    
     asabina@uonbi.ac.ke
    https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1750-280X 

    Received: 25 November, 2024
    Final Revision: 3 March, 2025
    Accepted: 13 March, 2025
    Published: 25 March 2025
      10.52283/NSWRCA.AJBMR.20240901A04
     
    Abstract

    Tea has been a significant cash crop for farmers, particularly smallholders who generate income from the agricultural sector. Research however, indicates various challenges and unrealistic budgetary allocations for monitoring and evaluation unaddressed particularly in developing countries Kenya included. Consequently, this has frustrated the performance of smallholder tea farming projects. Therefore, this manuscript intends to review the existing literature in order to assess how much budgetary allocation for monitoring and evaluation influences the performance of smallholder tea farming projects in Nyamira County, Kenya. Budgeting and financial planning are critical for both large and smallholder tea farmers. Because of the resource constraints associated with smallholder tea farming projects, the dimensions of quality and time are critical to ensuring that waste levels are kept low and a high level of productivity performance is achieved. The investigation focused on smallholder tea farmers who are currently engaged in tea farming in Nyamira County. The study adopted the theory of constraints and used purposeful and simple random sampling to arrive at a non-biased sample of 379 smallholder tea farmers who participated in the study. The data was gathered using a questionnaire and an interview schedule as data collection tools. SPSS was used to analyze the data, and the results revealed that budgetary allocation statistically influenced the performance of smallholder tea farming projects in Kenya.
    Keywords: Budget allocation, monitoring and evaluation, performance, smallholder tea farming project.

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