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DOI	10.1080/23311932.2020.1830476
	Effects of finger millet innovations on productivity in Kenya
	Jerop, Rebecca; Owuor, George; Mshenga, Patience; Kimurto, Paul
通讯作者	Jerop, R
来源期刊	COGENT FOOD & AGRICULTURE
ISSN	2331-1932
出版年	2020
卷号	6 期号:1
英文摘要	Finger millet is an underutilized cereal crop grown in some parts of semi-arid lands in Kenya. Its productivity could be critical in diversifying household nutrition and incomes among resource-constrained farmers in these marginalized areas. The purpose of the current study was to analyze the effect of innovations on the productivity of the crop. More knowledge could help underutilized cereal crops' practitioners to develop and disseminate better-targeted innovations. A Translog production frontier was found adequate in investigating the effects of innovations on finger millet productivity for a sample of 384 finger millet farmers in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, Kenya. The empirical results indicated that the application of improved finger millet variety and practicing conservation tillage positively affected productivity through the reduction of technical inefficiency. Finger millet yield was more responsive to the number of labour in person-days in comparison to other frontier inputs. The study also found that small farms had higher yields than large farms. The mean technical efficiency of finger millet farmers was about 67%. Income from no-farm activities and membership to the group had positives and significant effects on technical efficiencies. The age of the household head and contacts with extension officers significantly increases the inefficiencies.
英文关键词	underutilized productivity technical efficiency stochastic frontier
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000582248200001
WOS关键词	GREEN-REVOLUTION ; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY ; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ; AFRICA ; TECHNOLOGY ; IMPACT
WOS类目	Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Agriculture
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/334699
作者单位	[Jerop, Rebecca] Laikipia Univ, Dept Econ, POB 1100-20300, Nyahruru, Kenya; [Owuor, George; Mshenga, Patience] Egerton Univ, Dept Agr Econ & Agribusiness Management, POB 536-20115, Egerton, Kenya; [Kimurto, Paul] Egerton Univ, Dept Crops Hort & Crop Sci, POB 536-20115, Egerton, Kenya
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jerop, Rebecca,Owuor, George,Mshenga, Patience,et al. Effects of finger millet innovations on productivity in Kenya[J],2020,6(1).
APA	Jerop, Rebecca,Owuor, George,Mshenga, Patience,&Kimurto, Paul.(2020).Effects of finger millet innovations on productivity in Kenya.COGENT FOOD & AGRICULTURE,6(1).
MLA	Jerop, Rebecca,et al."Effects of finger millet innovations on productivity in Kenya".COGENT FOOD & AGRICULTURE 6.1(2020).