Zawadi Peter Mammba

The main objective of this paper is to address the importance of off-farm activities in eradicate household poverty. The concept actual raised due to negligence of off-farming activities in most of Tanzania rural area, it is only recent that the contribution of off-farm activities to household poverty has not been widely addressed and campaigned for. The campaigning for increasing off-farm participation in rural area is mostly with the view of gaining socio-economic popularity but not to equip rural household with strategic to eradicate household poverty. The major findings reveal off farm activities as one of the aspects that need to be address to transform rural economy in order to eradicate rural household poverty. Empirical results are consisting with theoretical hypothesis that engagement in off-faming activities is affected by age, sex, educational level, dependency ratio or family size. However, the empirical results show that, are consist with the hypothesis that engagement in off-farming activities is influenced by sex, education level and family size of household heads although, age and dependency ratio, age does not effluences household heads to engaging in off-farm activities. Despite of neglecting of off-farm activities, there is evidence show the growth of off-farm sector in rural Tanzania.