The impact of demonstration plots on improved agricultural input purchase in Tanzania: Implications for policy and practice.

ABSTRACT: In this paper, the authors use survey data from over 800 households to examine the impact of demonstration plots and associated activities (distribution of small packs of agricultural inputs) on smallholder farmers' decisions to buy agricultural inputs in Tanzania. Using propensity score matching and inverse probability-weighted adjustment models, the authors estimated the effect of access to demonstration plots alone and demonstration plots combined with small packs of agricultural inputs on a household's decision to purchase improved inputs. The results indicate that access to demonstration plots and demonstration plots with small packs increased the probability of purchasing improved inputs by 13-17 percentage points. This paper suggests that demonstration plots and demonstration plots

SUBMITTER: Sseguya H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7810322 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature