Assessing the Advantages of Tissue Culture Bananas Technology Production of Banana Farmers in Kisii County, Kenya

Abstract

Over the years, governments from all over the world have attempted to attain food security, albeit with varying degrees of success. To feed the expanding population, agriculture has significantly increased in intensity. One of the technologies employed is banana tissue culture. Most research studies indicate that small-scale farmers in Kisii County have not adopted this technology at high rates, despite efforts to spread its use among them. The objective of the study was to examine the how advantages of tissue culture banana adoption influence the use of tissue culture banana technology in Kisii County. The study adopted a descriptive study approach. A simple random sampling procedure was used to choose the respondents. Survey forms, interview schedules, and observation checklists were used in the data collection process. A five-Likert scale study was employed to gather farmers' advantages of Tissue Culture bananas. The associations between tissue culture banana adoption and advantages were displayed using mean comparison procedures. Non-adopters’ inadequacy of awareness of advantages about adopting bananas from tissue culture was proven to have a major impact on the practice. Compared to adopters, whose average mean was determined to be 1.28, non-adopters' average mean was 2.494. Comparing adopters of tissue culture banana technology to non-adopters in Kisii County, this suggests that the former had a better grasp of the advantages in tissue culture banana production. Consequently, there is a need to raise farmers' understanding of the general challenges surrounding technology in the area in order to improve on the technology adoption.

Keywords

• Tissue culture banana technology
• Tissue culture banana benefits
• Adoption of agricultural technologies
• Kisii county
• Food security