The Efficiency of museums: A Stochastic frontier Production Function Approach

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The role of variety attributes on the adoption of
dryland crop varieties the case of pigeon pea
production in Taita district, Kenya
Zipora Otieno, Julius J. Okello, Rose A. Nyikal,
Agnes Mwangombe.
University of Nairobi Department of
Agricultural Economics
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Outline of presentation

• Introduction and Background
• Problem statement
• Objectives
• Justification
• Methodology
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions and Policy Implications
• Acknowledgement

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Introduction and Background

• Scientific name Cajanus cajan
• Benefits of pigeon pea
• -Ability to withstand abiotic stress
• -Cheap source of protein
• -Production not labour-intensive
• -Leaves and hulls make nutritious animal
  feeds
• Despite numerous benefits, its production
  remained heavily constrained by pests, droughts
  lack of good planting material.
• Targeted breeding programme by ICRISAT.
• Result 3 improved pigeon pea varieties-
  Katumani 608, ICPL 89091 and ICEAP 00068.

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Introduction Background contd.

• Intensive promotion programme funded by AIDA
  project in Eastern and Coastal Kenya.
• Follow-up baseline survey conducted by ICRISAT
  (ICRISAT, 2007).
• Results Remarkable increase in technology
  uptake.
• Question What were the drivers of the AIDA
  project success story?

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Problem Statement

• Dearth of literature on the role of variety
  traits on adoption of improved pigeon pea
  varieties.
• Previous studies on adoption focused on farmer,
  institutional and policy variables.
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• Recent studies on adoption have found significant
  relationships between farmers subjective
  perceptions of marketability and consumption
  attributes in addition to yield.
• Key policy question Do variety traits influence
  the adoption of improved crop varieties? If so,
  which ones?
• Secondly, Is pigeon pea breeding policy well
  aligned with farmers expectations?

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Objectives

• General objective To determine the drivers of
  the AIDA project success story.
• Specific objectives
• To determine the factors influencing the adoption
  of improved pigeon pea varieties in Taita
  district.
• To assess the intensity of adoption of improved
  pigeon pea varieties.

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Justification

• Dearth of literature on the role of variety
  traits on adoption of improved pigeon pea
  varieties.
• Methodological gap.
• Huge untapped potential for pigeon pea production
  in Kenya.

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Methodology
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Results and Discussion

• Multivariate Probit results

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Poisson regression results
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Conclusions Policy recommendations

• Variety traits significantly influence the
  adoption of improved pigeon pea varieties.
• Early maturity trait ( a major focus of research)
  does not play a significant role in influencing
  adoption of improved pigeon pea varieties.
• Need for breeding policy to shift attention from
  short duration varieties to consumption and
  market-related attributes to increase impact.

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Acknowledgement

• The authors acknowledge funding for this study
  from the AIDA project.
• THANK YOU