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Community mobilization: a key to effective control of banana Xanthomonas wilt

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Title Community mobilization: a key to effective control of banana Xanthomonas wilt
 
Creator Kubiriba, Jerome
Karamura, E.B.
Jogo, W.
Tushemereirwe, W.K.
Tinzaara, William
 
Subject community involvement
disease control
farmers
musa (bananas)
technology
xanthomonas
 
Description Banana xanthomonas wilt (BXW) remains a major threat to banana, an important food and income crop for 12 million poor small-holder farmers in Uganda. Although, BXW has been controlled to some extent in parts of South-western Uganda, it is still a big problem in banana growing areas of Central and Eastern Uganda. We hypothesized that differential success in BXW control is mainly due to approaches used in the BXW control. This paper therefore, evaluates stakeholder mobilization approaches used in promoting technologies for BXW control in Uganda between 2006 and 2009. Results showed that farmer field schools host communities had more farmers (33%) that had low or no BXW infection (
 
Date 2012
2014-06-10T09:06:29Z
2014-06-10T09:06:29Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Kubiriba, J.; Karamura, E.B.; Jogo, W.; Tushemereirwe, W.K.; Tinzaara, W. -2012-Community mobilization: a key to effective control of banana Xanthomonas wilt-Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics 4(5)-p. 125-131
2006-9774
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/35843
http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/JDAE/article-abstract/5DF421A9373
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format p. 125-131
application/pdf
 
Source Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics