Common General Terms
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Agriculture Holding | English:
An agricultural holding is all land used wholly or partly for agricultural production purposes, without regard to title, legal form, or size. That is, land area where crops are grown (even on road side), livestock are kept, and or fish are reared.
Kiswahili: Umiliki wa kilimo ni ardhi yote inayotumiwa kikamilifu au sehemu kwa madhumuni ya uzalishaji wa kilimo, bila kuzingatia hatimiliki, fomu ya kisheria, au ukubwa. Hiyo ni, eneo la ardhi ambalo mazao hupandwa (hata kando ya barabara), mifugo huhifadhiwa, na au samaki hufugwa. |
| Annual/Temporary crop | English:
A plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within a few months up to one year, and then dies. Many do not have woody stems.
Kiswahili: Mimea inayo komaa kwa muda chini ya mwaka moja au mazao ya muda mfupi: Mmea unaomaliza mzunguko wa maisha yake, kutoka kuota hadi uzalishaji wa mbegu, ndani ya miezi michache hadi mwaka mmoja, na kisha kufa. Wengi hawana mashina ya miti. |
| Commercial, institutional and specialty farmer | English:
This is the overall manager (farm manager) who is assigned the duties of making overall decisions on how inputs and resources are used in order to maximize agricultural production within a holding owned by a registered company, cooperative society, ranch, institutions (such as schools, universities, churches, etc), or an organized group.
Kiswahili: Huyu ndiye meneja mkuu (meneja wa shamba) ambaye amepewa majukumu ya kufanya maamuzi ya jumla juu ya jinsi pembejeo na rasilimali zinavyotumika ili kuongeza uzalishaji wa kilimo ndani ya eneo linalomilikiwa na kampuni iliyosajiliwa, chama cha ushirika, ranchi, taasisi (kama vile shule). , vyuo vikuu, makanisa, n.k), au kikundi kilichopangwa. |
| Compact plantation | English:
Plants, trees and shrubs planted in a regular and systematic spacing pattern; usually, area of compact plantation is easy to measure.
Kiswahili: Upandaji miti thabiti : mimea, miti na vichaka vilivyopandwa kufuatilia mpangilio wa nafasi kati ya mimea na kwa utaratibu uliopendekezwa na wataalamu; kwa kawaida, ni eneo la shamba thabiti ambayo ni rahisi kuipima . |
| Conventional Households | English:
Usually consist of a person or a group of persons who live together in the same homestead/compound but not necessarily in the same dwelling unit, have same cooking arrangements, and are answerable to the same household head.
Kiswahili: Kwa kawaida huwa na mtu au kikundi cha watu wanaoishi pamoja katika boma/kiwanja kimoja lakini si lazima katika nyumba moja, wana mipango sawa ya kupikia, na wanawajibika kwa mkuu wa kaya yule yule. |
| Farming Household | English:
A household in which one or more members is engaged in agricultural production. Agricultural production refers to a deliberate process of producing food, feed, fiber or other products that are ultimately consumed or sold as raw materials to make other secondary products. These activities include: planting and harvesting of crops; raising or rearing of livestock, as well as rearing of fish in ponds or cages. Note that growing of crops or rearing of livestock or fish for leisure, decoration or domestic pet is not categorized as farming in Kenya. Furthermore, caging and feeding of wild animals is not be categorized as farming. However, caging and feeding of fish, which are ultimately “harvested” and consumed or sold, is considered as fish farming.
It is important to note that farming household is one engaged in agriculture on own account; that is, for direct self or household’s gains. Hence, if head of household or any members of a household engaged in farming through employment by another household or establishment, that does not make the particular employed household to be a farming one.
Kiswahili: Kaya ambayo mwanakaya mmoja au zaidi wanajishughulisha na uzalishaji wa kilimo. Uzalishaji wa kilimo unarejelea mchakato wa makusudi wa kuzalisha chakula, malisho, nyuzinyuzi au bidhaa nyinginezo ambazo hatimaye hutumika au kuuzwa kama malighafi kutengeneza bidhaa nyingine za pili. Shughuli hizo ni pamoja na: kupanda na kuvuna mazao; ufugaji au ufugaji wa mifugo, pamoja na ufugaji wa samaki kwenye madimbwi au vizimba. Kumbuka kuwa ukuzaji wa mazao au ufugaji wa mifugo au samaki kwa burudani, mapambo au wanyama wa kufugwa hauainishwi kama kilimo nchini Kenya. Zaidi ya hayo, ufugaji na kulisha wanyama pori hauainishwi kama ufugaji. Hata hivyo, kuweka na kulisha samaki, ambao hatimaye "huvunwa" na kuliwa au kuuzwa, huchukuliwa kama ufugaji wa samaki. Ni muhimu kutambua kwamba kaya ya wakulima ni moja inayojishughulisha na kilimo kwa akaunti yake mwenyewe; yaani, kwa faida ya kibinafsi au ya kaya. Kwa hivyo, ikiwa mkuu wa kaya au mwanakaya yeyote anajishughulisha na kilimo kwa kuajiriwa na kaya nyingine au taasisi, hiyo haifanyi kaya iliyoajiriwa kuwa ya kilimo. |
| Household | English:
A household is a person or group of persons who reside in the same homestead/compound but not necessarily in the same dwelling unit, have same cooking arrangement, and are answerable to the same household head.
Kiswahili: Kaya ni mtu au kikundi cha watu wanaoishi katika boma/kiwanja kimoja lakini si lazima katika nyumba moja, wana mpangilio sawa wa kupikia, na wanawajibika kwa mkuu wa kaya yule yule. |
| Non-conventional households | English:
This applies to groups of people living together but cannot be said to belong to an “ordinary” household. Examples are hospital in-patients, people in Police cells, travellers, guests in hotels, or prison inmates, outdoor sleepers, nuns in a convent etc.
Kiswahili: Hii inatumika kwa vikundi vya watu wanaoishi pamoja lakini haiwezi kusemwa kuwa ni ya kaya "ya kawaida". Mifano ni wagonjwa waliolazwa hospitalini, watu katika seli za Polisi, wasafiri, wageni hotelini, au wafungwa, walalao nje, watawa katika nyumba ya watawa n.k. |
| Perennial/Permanent crop | English:
Long-living crops that grow for more than one year; many have woody stems.
Kiswahili: Mimea ya kudumu shambani zaidi yam waka mmoja – Mazao ya muda mrefu ambayo hukua kwa zaidi ya mwaka mmoja; wengi wana mashina ya miti. |
| Scattered plantation | English:
trees, fruits etc planted in the holding with no clear spacing pattern, along fences, etc; usually area not easy to measure.
Kiswahili: Mashamba yaliyotawanyika : miti, matunda n.k iliyopandwa kwenye shamba bila mpangilio wazi wa nafasi zilizotumika wakati wa kuipanda, n.k; kawaida eneo hiyo si rahisi kupima. |
| Tillers | English:
A tiller is a stem produced by a plant (mainly grass family) and refers to all shoots that grow after the initial parent shoot grows from a seed. Tillers grow separately from the main shoot and may mature to form own flowers and seeds.
Kiswahili: Machipukizi yote yanayokua baada ya chipukizi mzazi : Ni mashina yanayozalishwa na mmea (hasa familia ya nyasi) na yote yanayokua baada ya chipukizi la awali la mzazi kukua kutoka kwenye mbegu. Machipukizi haya hukua kando na shina kuu na yanaweza kukomaa na kuunda maua na mbegu zao. |
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