@article{Hassan:174017,
      recid = {174017},
      author = {Hassan, Rashid M.},
      title = {Planting strategies of maize farmers in Kenya: a  simultaneous equations analysis in the presence of discrete  dependent variables},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International  Association of Agricultural Economists},
      address = {1996-11},
      number = {968-2016-75702},
      pages = {14},
      year = {1996},
      abstract = {A fairly comprehensive range of planting choices made by  maize farmers in Kenya (including discrete endogenous  variables creating
self-selectivity) is modelled and  estimated as one system of interrelated decisions.  Two-stage and three-stage probit procedures are used  to
handle the simultaneity and self-selectivity problems.  Results showed that population pressure and agroclimatic  diversity are important
determinants of crop  intensification and planting regimes among maize farmers  and further supported the importance of focusing  maize
research in terms of agroclimate and socio-economic  domains. Shorter maturity and efficient double and multiple  cropping methods are
needed to increase land productivity  and intensity of labour use in areas of high population  pressure and bimodal rainfall, i.e. mid-altitude
zones. On  the other hand, technologies that would lead to increased  productivity of capital and higher response to external  inputs are desired
for the highlands of Kenya. Access to  extension and machine services, distance to the maize plot,  and time of onset of the rains were also
found to  significantly influence the planting strategies of maize  farmers.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/174017},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.174017},
}