| dc.description.abstract | The study examines the role of tea factories
on the growth of nucleated settlements in Kisii district
with Keroka and Kebirigo taken as case studies.
The study examines the relationship of population
distribution and its influence on the pattern of human
settlements in the district, In examining the role of
tea factories, the study analysed the general factors
influencing the growth of nucleated settlements and
the role of tea factories in particular.
The findings reveal that physical expansion,
increase of economic activities, population and provision
of the infrastructural facilities in these centres is
attributed to the establishment of tea factories within
or near them. The findings also show that the role of
tea factories has greater influence when combined with
other influencing factors such as potentiality of
resource hinterland and transportation network.
finaLly the study recommends the various policy
approaches through which the identified constraints and
problems of the settlements could be solved and on which
the general development of the settlements could be
based. | en |
