As cost of living rises and people’s wages?/?salaries do not
cover their basic food and dietary needs, interest in parttime
farming has risen. Part-time farming activities are being
practiced by different people as a food security strategy from
vulnerable households. But these part-time farms have had
limited success in providing food/nutrition security, increasing
incomes and improving well-being. Understanding the factors
underlying their persistent deprivation is imperative when designing
policies and programmes to meet their needs and
improve their welfare. Farm level survey data collected from
60 households with the aid of questionnaire were used to
estimate the determinants of deprivation by Tobit regression
model. Using the maximum likelihood approach, asymptotic
parameters estimates were evaluated to describe determinants
of deprivation. Sex, marital status, household size, education,
farm income and labour were significant determinants of
deprivation.