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    Access to Agricultural Finance, Farmer training and Performance of small holder farmers: A case of one acre fund in Jinja district.
    (Makerere University Business School, 2021-03-04) Nanzigwa, Godfrey
    The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between access to agricultural finance, farmer training and performance of smallholder farmers taking a case of One Acre Fund in Jinja district. The study specific objectives were: to Examine the relationship between access to agricultural finance and performance of smallholder farmers; relationship between farmer training and performance of smallholder farmers, and relationship between access to agricultural finance, farmer training and performance of smallholder farmers. A cross sectional survey design was adopted; both quantitative and qualitative research approaches were used on a sample size of 118 respondents. Data was obtained using closed ended questionnaires and semi-structured interview guide. Data was processed using SPSS v.20 to generate Pearson correlations and regression analysis results. The study found out that access to agricultural finance was positively related with performance of smallholder farmers at r=.859. It was also revealed that farmer training was positively related with performance of smallholder farmers at r=.840. Furthermore, the study revealed that both access to agricultural finance and farmer training were significant predictors of performance of smallholder farmers. Both combined account for 80.5% (Adjusted R2=.805) in variance of performance of smallholder farmers but access to agricultural finance was the highest predictor with beta value = .694 as compared to beta value = .160 of farming training. Based on the findings, the study recommended that One Acre Fund should put a lot of emphasis on availing agricultural finance inform of loans and farm inputs to smallholder farmers in order to maintain high performance. Putting more efforts in training smallholder farmers on keeping farm records would also be very important and additionally providing training to smallholder farmers on how to invest loans given to them and teach them how to use farm inputs and equipment provided.