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Adoption and Dis-Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture: A Case of Farmers’ Innovations and Integrated Fruit Fly Management in Kenya

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dc.contributor.author Charity, M. Wangithi
dc.contributor.author Beatrice, W. Muriithi
dc.contributor.author Raphael, Belmin
dc.date.accessioned 2021-09-20T06:23:30Z
dc.date.available 2021-09-20T06:23:30Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1570
dc.description.abstract The invasive fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis poses a major threat to the production and trade of mango in sub-Saharan Africa. Farmers devise different innovations to manage the pest in an attempt to minimize yield loss and production costs while maximizing revenues. Using survey data obtained from Embu County, Kenya, we analyzed farmers’ knowledge and perception as regards the invasive fruit fly, their innovations for the management of the pest, and the determinants of their adoption and dis-adoption decisions of recently developed and promoted integrated pest management (IPM) technologies for suppression of the pest. The results show that farmers consider fruit flies as a major threat to mango production (99%) and primarily depend on pesticides (90%) for the management of the pest. Some farmers (35%) however use indigenous methods to manage the pest. Though farmers possess good knowledge of different IPM strategies, uptake is relatively low. The regression estimates show that continued use of IPM is positively associated with the gender and education of the household head, size of a mango orchard, knowledge on mango pests, training, contact with an extension officer, and use of at least one non-pesticide practice for fruit fly management, while IPM dis-adoption was negatively correlated with the size of the mango orchard, practice score and use of indigenous innovations for fruit fly management. We recommend enhancing farmer s knowledge through increased access to training programs and extension services for enhanced adoption of sustainable management practices for B. dorsalis en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Europe–Africa Agricultural Research and Innovation Cooperation Program (LEAP-Agri) National Research Fund (NRF) International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Kenyan Government en_US
dc.publisher MDPI Agriculture en_US
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States *
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ *
dc.subject Fruit flies en_US
dc.subject Integrated pest management en_US
dc.subject Farmers’ innovations en_US
dc.subject Mango en_US
dc.subject Kenya en_US
dc.title Adoption and Dis-Adoption of Sustainable Agriculture: A Case of Farmers’ Innovations and Integrated Fruit Fly Management in Kenya en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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