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The effectiveness and complementarity of field days and small seed packs (SSPs) in delivering Dryland Cereal technologies: A survey of field day participants and agro-vets in Singida and Iramba districts of central Tanzania, Working Paper Series No. 61

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Title The effectiveness and complementarity of field days and small seed packs (SSPs) in delivering Dryland Cereal technologies: A survey of field day participants and agro-vets in Singida and Iramba districts of central Tanzania, Working Paper Series No. 61
 
Creator Audi, P
Sakwera, L
Ziwa, R
Letayo, E
Ojulong, H F
Manyasa, E O
 
Subject Finger Millet
Sorghum
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description This paper is about the result of a survey done in the 2014-2015 cropping season of field day participants
and agro-vets who were facilitated to market SSPs and SFPs in Singida and Iramba districts of Tanzania. The
objective of the survey was to determine whether there was any correlation between awareness creation and
preferences reported during field days and the demand for technological inputs from the agro-vets. The results
showed a strong complementarity between the dissemination of information on improved technologies during
field days and the retailing of SSPs and SFPs in agro-vets. The field days help in creating awareness about the
benefits and attributes of available improved sorghum and finger millet varieties and associated agronomic
recommendations; while retailing of the SSPs and SFPs by the agro-vets not only helps promote the demand
for improved technological inputs but also enhances their accessibility as SSPs and SFPs are more affordable
to resource poor farmers. Therefore, having field days for awareness creation without improving accessibility
of technological inputs through sale of SSPs and SFPs or vice versa is futile and does not lead to enhanced
experimentation and adoption of improved technologies by target farmers...
 
Publisher ICRISAT
 
Date 2015
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9188/1/The%20effectiveness%20and%20complementarity%20Wps%2061%20merge%20file.pdf
Audi, P and Sakwera, L and Ziwa, R and Letayo, E and Ojulong, H F and Manyasa, E O (2015) The effectiveness and complementarity of field days and small seed packs (SSPs) in delivering Dryland Cereal technologies: A survey of field day participants and agro-vets in Singida and Iramba districts of central Tanzania, Working Paper Series No. 61. Working Paper. ICRISAT, Patancheru, Telangana, India.