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Title:Socio-Economic Factors Influencing the Adoption of CG7 Groundnut Technology in Malawi
Authors:Edriss, Abdi-Khalil
Mangisoni, Julius
Year:2004
Periodical:Eastern Africa Journal of Rural Development
Volume:20
Issue:1
Pages:12-23
Language:English
Geographic term:Malawi
Subjects:agricultural economy
groundnuts
Development and Technology
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
Abstract:For various reasons, it is imperative to use soil fertility and yield enhancing technologies, legume plant combination and seed varieties of crops such as CG7 groundnut variety in Malawi's farms. The advantage of using such leguminous seeds is that it helps soil fertility and expands agricultural output per unit area as compared to local varieties, thereby increasing smallholder farmers' income. At the same time, groundnuts provide nutrition for the growers. This study determines the socioeconomic factors affecting the adoption of the new groundnut variety CG7 in Malawi. A multi-stage cluster sampling procedure involving a combination of purposeful and random sampling procedures was used to select 200 farmers in Lilongwe and Salima districts in the Central region, which produces about 70 percent of the total groundnut crop in Malawi. The negative binomial model employed shows that adoption of CG7 groundnut technology is affected by farm size, level of education, family labour, seed input price and groundnut farm price. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]
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