Farmer Groups’ Members’ Household Factors Influencing Selection of Soil Fertility Technologies in The Central Highlands of Kenya

Abstract

This second study assessed the influence of farmer groups’ socio-economic factors on the selection of the technologies. Household variables that influenced selection of manure include: HH size (p=0.001), benefits of manure (p=0.011), land tenure (p=0.056), HHH education (p=0.075), TLU (p=0.036), and land under food crops (p=0.014). Variables that influenced selection of fertilizer included: HHH education (p=0.033), land under food crops (p=0.012), HHH occupation (p=0.041) and availability of on-farm income (p=0.012). Variables that influenced selection of a combination included: HHH education (p=0.001), land under food crops (p=0.041), TLU (p=0.011) and the most effective method to teach combination (p=0.001). This results could be helpful to the groups, researchers, policy makers, farmers’ training designers and other stakeholders in natural resource management programmes.