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. 2021 Jul;17(4):814-834.
doi: 10.1002/ieam.4379. Epub 2021 Feb 8.

Sustainability assessment of different land tenure farming systems in tea farming: The effect of decisional and structural variables

Shamsheer Ul Haq  1 , Ismet Boz  2 , Pomi Shahbaz  2
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Sustainability assessment of different land tenure farming systems in tea farming: The effect of decisional and structural variables

Shamsheer Ul Haq et al. Integr Environ Assess Manag. 2021 Jul.

Abstract

This study focuses on the sustainability of different land tenure farms in tea farming and explores the effect of structural and decisional variables on tea farm sustainability. For this, a total of 138 tea growers from the Rize province of Turkey were selected through a stratified sampling approach and interviewed directly. The positive and negative effects of independent variables on all dimensions of sustainability were emphasized after an extensive review of the literature. This reviewing activity also facilitated hypothesizing the possible influences of variables on overall tea sustainability. A tobit model was used to examine the influence of the structural and decisional variables on tea farm sustainability. The results described that owners were more sustainable compared with shareholders. Their economic and social sustainability levels were not significantly different from each other. However, environmental sustainability at owners' tea farms was more satisfactory than that of shareholders. Among structural variables, land slope, age of tea orchard, and farmers' age were negative influences, whereas cooperative membership and terrace status affected tea farm sustainability positively. Similarly, among decisional variables, family labor, fertilizer application methods, farmers' willingness to perform a soil test, and sale value of tea had positive influences, whereas the cost of chemical fertilizers had a negative influence on tea farm sustainability. The land tenure was found to have a significant effect on sustainability when the tea farmer was the owner of the farm. Thus, farmers should replant their orchards on time, and adopt sustainable practices such as terracing and employing environment-friendly fertilizer application methods for increasing tea sustainability in the locality. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2021;17:814-834. © 2020 SETAC.

Keywords: Agricultural sustainability; Land tenure; Owner; Shareholder; Tea farming.

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