KARI/ODA Crop protection Project Farming System Survey Report

Abstract

This is the first nationwide Farming systems Survey (FSS) of Kenyan smallholder farmers' perceptions, particularly those relating to crop protection issues. The implementation and results of the survey meet a mixture of objectives set by the main KARI/ODA crop Protection project (cPP). The planning, testing, discussions, fieldwork interviews of 2107 farmers, data coding and input were all done with the training and involvement of KARl personnel, as this was part of a much wider strategy to help KARl's institutional strengthening. The analysis and publication of these results helps a related strategy - that of contributing to the process of prioritorising the KARI/ODA CPP's main research objectives. Some results relating to this objective have already been released in the Report on the crop Protection and FSS workshop, April 1992~ and this report does not aim to duplicate those results.