| dc.description.abstract | This study assessed challenges facing women vegetable sellers in the City Council of
Dodoma at Sabasaba Market. The specific objectives of the study were to determine status
of women vegetable selling business, analyze vegetable business improvement challenges
and to explore strategies employed by women vegetable sellers to overcome the challenges.
In addressing these objectives, the findings were expected to be a source of reference for
policy reforms in improving among others women vegetable business. Probability and non
probability sampling techniques were employed to select 133 women vegetable sellers of
which 131 were interviewed. Documentary review, interviews and observations were
employed in data collection. Descriptive and inferential analysis techniques were used to
analyze the data. Descriptive statistics findings indicated that, majority of respondents
(32.8%) were selling fruit vegetables and leafy vegetables (32.1%). Main challenges faced
were market infrastructures (19.8%) and market availability (17.2%). Strategies used were
wholeselling (37.4%) and use of local preserving technologies (30.5%). Through regression
model the study identified that market availability had significant influence on probability
of improvement in vegetable selling (p<0.05). Therefore, City council of Dodoma should
improve the market infrastructures, to enhance market availability, awareness creation and
group lending. | en_US |
