Impact of Joint Multiple Agricultural Technology Production of Beans on Household Nutrition Outcome in East Africa
Kachilei Levy,
Vincent Ngeno
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2021
Pages:
16-23
Received:
12 January 2021
Accepted:
19 January 2021
Published:
29 April 2021
Abstract: This study analyzes the impact of beans produced under joint multiple agricultural technologies (Improved beans variety, soil carbon management, integrated pest control, and use of compost manure) on nutrition outcome of stunting, underweight, and wasting in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Adoption of technologies in East Africa has been in isolation only focusing on single technologies. However, farmers typically adopt joint multiple agricultural technologies as complements or substitutes thus technologies to be adopted dependent on early technology choices. The objective of the study was to analyze the impact of the nutrition outcome variables in terms of stunting, wasting, and underweight for the best joint multiple agricultural technology combinations as a set of explanatory variables (z). This study adopts the multinomial endogenous switching regression model to correct for the selection bias and endogeneity. Results indicate that joint multiple agricultural technologies had a significant impact on the overall nutrition outcome in East Africa households. It is concluded that households in East Africa rarely use a single agricultural technology but rather a combination of different joint technologies in order to improve their nutrition outcome. The findings recommend that households should adopt joint multiple agricultural technologies rather than focusing on single technologies.
Abstract: This study analyzes the impact of beans produced under joint multiple agricultural technologies (Improved beans variety, soil carbon management, integrated pest control, and use of compost manure) on nutrition outcome of stunting, underweight, and wasting in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Adoption of technologies in East Africa has been in isolation ...
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Experimental Investigation of Soil Behaviour Using Industrial Fly Ash
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2021
Pages:
24-27
Received:
24 November 2020
Accepted:
17 March 2021
Published:
20 May 2021
Abstract: All the infrastructure projects such as buildings, railways, water reservoirs etc. require earth materials in a large quantity. In urban areas most of the soil are of highly plastic and expanse which is not suitable for all purpose. Many times we need to haul the suitable soil from a large distance which is not economical. The behavior of soil varies with different agencies like water, temperature, and region of soil, other atmospheric agencies, and mixed surplus material also. In this project we will be tried to established important properties of soil by using fly ash which is an industrial waste material, Fly ash causes various environmental problems like groundwater contaminants. So utilizing fly ash in soil stabilization can minimize such environmental hazards. In this project we will perform direct shear test, California bearing ratio (CBR) test, unconfined compression test and proctor compaction test. For this project we selected Black cotton soil which is available in Near Mantralaya, Naya Raipur (Chhattisgarh) India, region. We followed all the procedure prescribed in IS 2720 Part 7, 10, 16, and 40. Fly ash is often wont to stabilization bases or sub grade to stabilize back fill to scale back lateral earth pressure and to stabilize embankments to boost slope stability. Typical stabilized soil depths are 15 to 46 cm. the first reason ash is employed in soil stabilization applications is to boost the compressive and cutting strength of soils. The compressive strength of ash treated soils relies on-(i) in situ soil properties; (ii) Delay time; (iii) Moisture content at time of compaction; (iv) fly ash addition magnitude relation.
Abstract: All the infrastructure projects such as buildings, railways, water reservoirs etc. require earth materials in a large quantity. In urban areas most of the soil are of highly plastic and expanse which is not suitable for all purpose. Many times we need to haul the suitable soil from a large distance which is not economical. The behavior of soil vari...
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