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| Mwangi, Wilfred; Mwabu, Germano; Nyangito, Hezron Omare. |
| Adoption of technologies that increase farm yields is a prerequisite for poverty alleviation in agrarian societies. However, the link between adoption of improved agricultural technologies and poverty reduction is not well understood or documented. This relationship is explored with an example of improved maize seed adoption in Laikipia and Suba - two rural districts in Kenya. We show that adopters of improved maize varieties have higher yields per acre and that poverty is negatively correlated with technology adoption. Policies for increasing diffusion of these technologies include improving access roads to market centers to enhance maize profitability and extension of information about improved maize varieties to farmers. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Maize adoption; Technologies; Poverty; Policies; Kenya; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25376 |
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| Evenson, Robert E.; Mwabu, Germano. |
| The paper examines effects of agricultural extension on crop yields in Kenya controlling for other determinants of yields, notably the schooling of farmers and agro-ecological characteristics of arable land. The data we use were collected by the Government of Kenya in 1982 and 1990, but the estimation results reported in the paper are based primarily on the 1982 data set. The sample used for estimation contains information about crop production, agricultural extension workers (exogenously supplied to farms), educational attainment of farmers, usage of farm inputs, among others. A quantile regression technique was used to investigate productivity effects of agricultural extension and other farm inputs over the entire conditional distribution of farm yield... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural extension; Economic effects; Q16; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession; O13. |
| Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28509 |
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