| Causes of food shortage and/or food self-insufficiency | Frequency (N) | Percent (%) |
| Low productivity | 56 | 20.29 |
| Inadequate income from alternative sources | 19 | 6.88 |
| Inadequate input usage | 16 | 5.79 |
| lack of proper utilization of income | 5 | 1.81 |
| Climate related problems | 37 | 13.41 |
| Food price inflation | 6 | 2.17 |
| Low soil fertility | 17 | 6.16 |
| lack of access to irrigation | 11 | 3.98 |
| Inadequate cultivable land | 25 | 9.06 |
| Total | 192 | 69.55 |