About the Authors

Simon Gwara

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

218086735@stu.ukzn.ac.za, simmonsgwara@yahoo.co.uk

Affiliation Discipline of Agricultural Economics, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Edilegnaw Wale

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

Alfred Odindo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Discipline of Crop Science, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.