Management of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt: Evidence from Impact of Adoption of Cultural Control Practices in Uganda
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Date
2019
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Sustainability
Abstract
Banana XanthomonasWilt (BXW) is an important emerging and non-curable infectious plant
pathogen in sub-Saharan Africa that can cause up to 100% yield loss, negatively impacting sustainable
access to food and income to more than 100 million banana farmers. This study disentangles adopters
into partial and full adopters to investigate the factors that are relevant to sustain the adoption
process of BXW control practices and quantifies the impact of adopting the practices. Data from
a randomly selected sample of 1200 banana farmers in Uganda where the disease is endemic was
used. A multinomial logit model was used to determine the factors a ecting adoption of control
practices and augmented inverse probability weighting was employed to estimate the impacts of
adoption on banana productivity and sales. Results show that training a woman farmer and having
diverse sources of information about BXW control practices increased adoption of the control practices
and reduced the disease incidences. Farmers who adopted all the recommended control practices
achieved significantly the highest values of banana production and sales. We conclude that improving
information access through farmers’ preferred communication channels, having women-inclusive
trainings, and a combination of cultural practices are e ective ways for sustaining adoption of the
control practices.
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Banana XanthomonasWilt, Ccultural practices, Augmented inverse probability weighting, Distributional impacts
Citation
Kikulwe, E. M., Kyanjo, J. L., Kato, E., Ssali, R. T., Erima, R., Mpiira, S., ... & Karamura, E. (2019). Management of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt: Evidence from impact of adoption of cultural control practices in Uganda. Sustainability, 11(9), 2610. doi:10.3390/su11092610