Journalism and Mass Media Research Papers/Topics

Using Participatory Video Materials for Learning and Disseminating Push-pull Technology among Smallholder Farmers in Selected Districts in Western Kenya

Abstract: Push-Pull Technology (PPT) has been promoted as innovative and effective agriculture technology of addressing yield losses in the maize fields of resource-poor famers due to Striga weeds and Stem borers’ infestation in western Kenya. Being a knowledge intensive technology, learning and uptake of push-pull technology among the smallholder farmers has been relatively slow. Farmers need to have considerable knowledge level for them to learn and adopt it. The purpose of the study was...