Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/244493 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 5/2013
Publisher: 
Örebro University School of Business, Örebro
Abstract: 
The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the adoption of technological packages in agriculture Kenya on the farming households, as promoted by the National Agriculture and Livestock Extension Programme (NALEP), a program run by the Government of Kenya. To this end, we collected data on beneficiaries through a survey of 1000 households in the district of Lugari, in Western Kenya. We use propensity score matching to compute the average treatment effect on the treated. We find evidence that: I) program beneficiaries changed their crop rotation practices; II) treated households increased their fertilizer dosage by 23.8%; IV) productivity per acre is not affected by the treatment; V) treated households also were less likely to store their surplus maize.
Subjects: 
Agricultural Extension
Kenya
Propensity Score Matching
Maize
Fertilizer
Water Harvesting
Productivity
JEL: 
Q12
Q13
Q16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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