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| Rutto, Esther; De Groote, Hugo; Vanlauwe, Bernard; Kanampiu, Fred; Odhiambo, George D.; Khan, Zeyaur R.. |
| During participatory rural appraisals, farmers at the Lake Victoria basin of Kenya and Uganda identified Striga, stemborer and declining soil fertility as three major constraints to maize production To reduce food insecurity, several innovative integrated technologies to address these constraints have been developed, including push-pull (maize intercropped with Desmodium and surrounded by napier grass), maize-soybean and maize-crotalaria rotations, and Imazapyrresistant (IR) maize seed coated with the herbicide. To let farmers evaluate the new technologies, 12 demonstration trials, comparing the different technologies, were established in four villages in Siaya and Vihiga districts (Western Kenya) and two villages in Busia (Uganda). These evaluations,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farmers' preference; Technologies; Ordinal regression; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25317 |
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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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