The link between technology and youth farming was statistically significant, implying that the outcome in the sample can also be found in the general populace. Furthermore,the study observed that motivation guides the cognitive behavior of the youth towards farming and maintains them by establishing the driving force associated with the benefit of being a young farmer in the region. The analysis further denotes that motivation can also indirectly affect youth farming via economic factors allied with the youth.Also, economic factor was identified to have an optimal determinant on youth farming acceptance, although the data in this study proves otherwise at the 95% confidence level. Government Policies such as policy for better remuneration,a policy of stability of farming employment and retirement benefits,government subsidies on agricultural tools and machinery, flood and drain tray and the like contributed to the statistically significant figures obtained during the analysis.
The study observed that government policies serve as a direct link to influence the youth towards farming while also providing the platform for technology application to achieve the same objective. The study advances our understanding of pertinent factors that influence the youth’s adoption of agriculture by establishing the direct theoretical link from these factors. The study recommends that government and stakeholders lay down efficient and effective policies to motivate the young generation of today toward youth farming for sustainability and economic development.Finally, this present study as adding to literature has some limitations which provide the potential arena for future research. First, this research was conducted on youths in the West African region of Ghana, therefore, future research is encouraged to extend to other countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa with similar interest to boost agricultural farming among the youth.
Second, the focus of this study only involved only participants at a youthful age. Extending the study to include participants of older generation may give more insight into understanding how the gap between the young and old generation keeps widening or closing in terms of the interest to go into agriculture farming is suggested for future research. Third, the present study is limited in volume and variety of data obtained from participants. A variety of factors have inherent attributes to agricultural farming, hence further study to incorporate big data and its analytics is desired.Including additional variables ad applying the right analytics will throw more light on youth involvement in agricultural farming and increase precision on information gathered. Because of its contribution to the socio-economic development of rural Uganda in both food security and income generation, nft hydroponic especially, among women and other disadvantaged groups, smallholder dairy production system has received considerable support from the Government of Uganda as well as non-government organizations.
Moreover, by functioning as a store of wealth and supplying manure for crop production , dairy cattle fit very well in integrated crop-livestock systems. In Uganda, dairy cattle play a key role in the nutrition,of most households with per capita milk consumption of about 58 litres against FAO requirement of 200 litresper person per year . While annual average milk yield per cow per lactation per year of 305 days in developed countries can go above 8000 kg, less than 2000 kg is obtainable from pure dairy breeds, 1000 from cross breeds and 500 kg from indigenous cows in Uganda . These statistics are obviously distressing in light of the rapidly growing human population at a rate of 3.2% annually . In it is singled out that feed scarcity leads to poor nutrition which is a key constraint holding down production efficiency and health of the dairy cow on smallholder dairy farms in Lake Victoria Agro-ecological Zone . Poor nutrition of dairy cattle is exaggerated by drought induced feed scarcity attributed partly to change in climate and demographics. As human population increases demand for milk also increases, crop production expands, availability of land for forage production decreases contributing towards dairy cattle feed scarcity. With projected increase in demand for milk,coupled with declining land size for forage production due to demographic pressure, it seems inevitable for farmers to embrace alternative feed resources.