Human Capital and Agriculture Performance Vector Analysis in Tanzania

English

Abstract

This study examines the direction of the relationship between human capital and agriculture where education and health are indicators of human capital development in this study. For indicators of agricultural development, we focus on agriculture performance and employment in agriculture. This study uses vector analysis to see the direction of the relationship between education investment, health investment, employment in agriculture and agriculture performance. The data used is secondary data with an annual period from 2000 to 2019. We found that agricultural performance growth is not only in line with investment in education and health. But also, on employment in agriculture in Tanzania. This shows that Tanzania has succeeded in investing in education and health to improve agricultural performance as well as indicating that by improving human capital in Tanzania it increases employment, especially in the agricultural sector.