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Fertilizer use in semi-arid areas of Kenya: analysis of smallholder farmers' adoption behavior under liberalized markets

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Title Fertilizer use in semi-arid areas of Kenya: analysis of smallholder farmers' adoption behavior under liberalized markets
 
Creator Freeman, H A
Omiti, J M
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description This paper analyzes the factors influencing farm level fertilizer adoption decisions under an era of liberalized markets in Kenya using a Tobit regression model. The level of education of the household head, experience using fertilizer, growing a cash crop, availability of fertilizer in rural retail outlets, availability in small packages, and land pressure positively influenced fertilizer use, while the size of family labour and location in the drier semi-arid zone were negatively associated with fertilizer use. The paper concludes with policy and research implications for strategies aimed at achieving greater fertilizer use on smallholder farms.
 
Publisher Kluwer
 
Date 2003
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1402/1/NutCyclingAgro66_1_23-31_2003.pdf
Freeman, H A and Omiti, J M (2003) Fertilizer use in semi-arid areas of Kenya: analysis of smallholder farmers' adoption behavior under liberalized markets. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 66 (1). pp. 23-31.