@article{Mwangi:195736,
      recid = {195736},
      author = {Mwangi, Backson and Obare, Gideon A. and Murage, Alice},
      title = {Estimating the Adoption Rates of Two Contrasting Striga  Weeds Control Technologies in Kenya},
      journal = {Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture},
      address = {2014-08},
      number = {892-2016-65236},
      series = {Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 53 (2014)},
      pages = {18},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Pull-Pull (PPT) and Imazapyr resistant maize (IR)  technologies are among the Striga
weeds eradication  innovations that have been promoted in western Kenya. In  order to
direct agricultural investment optimally, the most  promising technology need to be
identified and up scaled  given limited financial and resource allocation  trade-offs.
Using data from a sample of 326 farmers, we  applied the Average Treatment Effect
(ATE) framework to  estimate the actual and potential adoption rates of the  two
technologies. The results indicate relatively similar  actual adoption rates of PPT (37%)
and IR maize technology  (36.3%). However, the potential adoption rates of PPT  and
IR maize technology were 56.3% and 46%, respectively,  whereby the adoption gap of
PPT (20%) was higher compared  to that of IR maize technology (9%). These findings
show  that, if extra efforts are made to close the adoption gap  to potential, PPT is a
more attractive Striga control  strategy.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/195736},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.195736},
}