Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Adoption"
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Determinants of adoption of conservation tillage practices in maize-cowpea cropping systems: The case of Makueni District, Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)The low soil moisture cannot support productive agriculture to meet the increasing population in the low rainfall tropical areas. Ripping and tied-ridging are some of the recent technologies introduced by the Food and ... -
Household-level determinants of adoption of improved natural resources management practices among smallholder farmers in western Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2007-08)Integrated natural resources management (INRM), of which integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) is a component, offers considerable promise for increasing food production in Kenya. It nonetheless remains unclear whether ... -
Market and Non-market Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of Improved Beef Cattle in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas of Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2013)This study assessed various market and non-market factors that might have a considerable bearing on farmers’ adoption of improved beef cattle breeds in dry areas of Kenya. A binomial (binary) logit model was applied ... -
The role of varietal traits in the adoption of improved dryland crop varieties: The case of pigeon pea in Kenya
(Department of Agricultural Economics, 2011-09)This study uses a multivariate probit model and the Poisson regression to examine the role of varietal attributes in farmers’ adoption of improved pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) varieties in Taita District, Kenya. It is based ...