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Agricultural extension messages using video on portable devices increase knowledge about seed selection, storage and handling among smallholder potato farmers in southwestern Uganda

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Title Agricultural extension messages using video on portable devices increase knowledge about seed selection, storage and handling among smallholder potato farmers in southwestern Uganda
 
Creator Campenhout, B. van
Vandevelde, S.
Walukano, W.
Asten, Piet J.A. van
 
Subject agricultural extension
agricultural productivity
smallholder potato farmers
southwestern uganda
agricultural technology
climate change
 
Description Open Access Journal
To feed a growing population, agricultural productivity needs to increase dramatically. Agricultural extension information, with its public, non-rival nature, is generally undersupplied, and public provision remains challenging. In this study, simple agricultural extension video messages, delivered through Android tablets, were tested in the field to determine if they increased farmers’ knowledge of recommended practices on (i) potato seed selection and (ii) seed storage and handling among a sample of potato farmers in southwestern Uganda. Using a field experiment with ex ante matching in a factorial design, it was established that showing agricultural extension videos significantly increased farmers’ knowledge. However, results suggested impact pathways that went beyond simply replicating what was shown in the video. Video messages may have triggered a process of abstraction, whereby farmers applied insights gained in one context to a different context.
 
Date 2017-01-25
2017-02-07T11:52:41Z
2017-02-07T11:52:41Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Van Campenhout B., Vandevelde S., Walukano W. & Van Asten P. (2017). Agricultural extension messages using video on portable devices increase knowledge about seed selection, storage and handling among smallholder potato farmers in southwestern Uganda. PLoS ONE 12(1): e0169557.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10568/79774
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169557
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1-17
application/pdf
 
Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
 
Source PLOS ONE