Effect of technology awareness and access on the conservation of clean planting materials of vegetatively produced crops: The case of sweetpotato

This study used discrete and count data regression models and data collected from 732 farm households in Tanzania to test the effect of participation on a project designed to break this quality “seed” bottleneck (via technology awareness and targeted access to clean planting materials) on: i) the de...

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Autores principales: Okello, A., Sindi, K., Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Low, Jan W., McEwan, M., Nakazi, F., Namanda, S., Babu, A., Mafuru, J.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Informa UK Limited 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/68857
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Sumario:This study used discrete and count data regression models and data collected from 732 farm households in Tanzania to test the effect of participation on a project designed to break this quality “seed” bottleneck (via technology awareness and targeted access to clean planting materials) on: i) the decision to conserve planting materials during dry periods for future planting and ii) the number of conservation strategies used by farmers.