Management of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt: Evidence from Impact of Adoption of Cultural Control Practices in Uganda

Enoch M. Kikulwe, Joseph Lule Kyanjo, Edward Kato, Reuben T. Ssali, Rockefeller Erima, Samuel Mpiira, Walter Ocimati, William Tinzaara, Jerome Kubiriba, Elisabetta Gotor, Dietmar Stoian and Eldad Karamura
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Enoch M. Kikulwe: Bioversity International, P.O. Box 24384, Kampala, Uganda
Joseph Lule Kyanjo: Department of Agribusiness and Natural Resource Economics, School of Agricultural Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda
Edward Kato: International Food Policy Research Institute, 1201 I St NW Eye Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA
Reuben T. Ssali: National Agricultural Laboratories Research Institute, P.O. Box 7084, Kampala, Uganda
Rockefeller Erima: National Agricultural Laboratories Research Institute, P.O. Box 7084, Kampala, Uganda
Samuel Mpiira: National Agricultural Laboratories Research Institute, P.O. Box 7084, Kampala, Uganda
Walter Ocimati: Bioversity International, P.O. Box 24384, Kampala, Uganda
William Tinzaara: Bioversity International, P.O. Box 24384, Kampala, Uganda
Jerome Kubiriba: National Agricultural Laboratories Research Institute, P.O. Box 7084, Kampala, Uganda
Dietmar Stoian: Bioversity International, Parc Scientifique Agropolis II, CEDEX 5, 34397 Montpellier, France
Eldad Karamura: Bioversity International, P.O. Box 24384, Kampala, Uganda

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 9, 1-18

Abstract: Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (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 affecting 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 effective ways for sustaining adoption of the control practices.

Keywords: Banana Xanthomonas Wilt; cultural practices; augmented inverse probability weighting; distributional impacts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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