Household wealth and adoption of improved maize varieties in Nepal: a double-hurdle approach

Exploring farmer perceptions of agricultural innovations for maize-legume intensification in the mid-hills region of Nepal

“…Maize is usually sown together with legumes or cucurbit species, with finger millet often relay-planted into the standing crop (Subedi 1996in Tiwari, Brook, & Sinclair, 2004. However, over the last two decades the productivity of maize remained at a low level of about 2 to 2.5 Mg ha −1 and only in some cases increased marginally (Devkota et al, 2015;Ghimire & Huang, 2015;Paudel & Matsuoka, 2008).…”

“…Many interventions have focused in closing yield gaps of maize in the mid-hills of Nepal by promoting improved technologies and the adoption of modern inputs such as new crop varieties (Becerril & Abdulai, 2010;Ghimire & Huang, 2015). By conducting on-farm experiments, Devkota et al (2015) determined that there is a remarkable scope for improving maize productivity by maintaining higher plant densities, cultivating hybrids, and increasing fertilizer use.…”

“…The reasons include, among others, lack of information of technology and motivation of farmers (Ransom, Paudyal, & Adhikari, 2003;Tiwari et al, 2004), and increased costs and risks for the farmers. Furthermore, there are still gaps between the results obtained in experimental research stations and farmers' fields (Ghimire & Huang, 2015;Karki et al, 2015;Paudel & Matsuoka, 2008) that could be bridged by improving the communication between farmers and extension systems (including the non-governmental community) (Karki et al, 2015;Ransom et al, 2003), and possibly a stronger role of the private sector.…”

Farmer-led Improved Storage Technique and Management of Aflatoxin in Peanut Production: Evidence from Ghana

“…Given that farmers are risk averse and using the improve storage structure is knowledge-intensive, we expect farmers to initially experiment with the technology and subsequently adopt and upscale (Sadoulet and De Janvry, 1995). Adoption decision is modeled as two separate or related processes (Ghimire and Huang, 2015;Liverpool-Tasie, 2014;Noltze et al, 2012). The discrete decision to adopt improved storage structure is modelled as one process and the decision on the quantity of peanut that is stored in the improved structure is also estimated as a separate or conditional model (Zhou et al, 2010).…”

Potential for quality protein maize for reducing proteinenergy undernutrition in maize dependent Sub-Saharan African countries: A review

“…Akombi et al (2017) concurred that households with parents of low education levels tend to have low disposable income and, hence, are likely to spend less on proper nutrition, resulting in PEU. However, it has been shown that new technology awareness such as QPM, is not related to education level, but its adoption is related to the education level of the target people (Taipale, 2013, Ghimire andHuang, 2015). Therefore, as a counter measure, there is need to tap in the existing education in countries such as Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya and Zambia to use it as a vehicle for QPM campaigns on the benefits of QPM (Langsten, 2014;Orodho, 2014;Zinkina and Korotayev, 2014).…”