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| De Groote, Hugo; Wangare, Lucy; Kanampiu, Fred; Odendo, Martins; Friesen, Dennis. |
| Striga is an obligate parasitic weed attacking cereal crops in Subsaharan Africa. In Western Kenya, it is identified by farmers as their major pest problem in maize. A new technology, consisting of seed coating of herbicide tolerant maize varieties, has prove to be very effective in farmer fields. To bring this technology to the farmer, a sustainable delivery system needs to be developed, preferably through the private sector. To help of the seed companies develop a strategy, the potential market for this technology is hereby calculated, combines different data sources into a Geographic Information System (GIS). Superimposing secondary data, field surveys, agricultural statistics and farmer surveys makes it possible to clearly identify the Striga-prone... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Maize; Striga; Africa; Weeds; Pest control; Crop Production/Industries; Q12. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24690 |
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| Murage, Alice W.; Amudavi, David Mulama; Obare, Gideon A.; Chianu, Jonas; Khan, Zeyaur R.. |
| The push-pull technology (PPT) has widely been disseminated to control stemborer (Chilo partellus and Busseola fusca) and Striga weeds (Striga hermonthica and Striga asiatica) in maize fields in Kenya. This study examined farmers’ preferences for various dissemination pathways in order to proffer better targeting of resources in an optimal dissemination strategy. The pathways considered were public meetings (barazas), radio, farmer field schools (FFS), field days (FD), farmer teachers (FT), the fellow farmers (FF) and print materials. Using a weighted score index and ordered probit regression, the different pathways were sequentially ranked as FD, FT, FFS, FF, print materials, Radio, and barazas. Marginal effects from ordered probit showed that farmers had... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Push-pull technology; Stemborer; Striga; Dissemination pathways; Preference; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95918 |
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