De Groote, Hugo; Wangare, Lucy; Kanampiu, Fred; Odendo, … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2005
Striga is an obligate parasitic weed attacking cereal crops in Subsaharan Africa. In Western Kenya, it is identified by farmers as their major pest problem in maize. A new technology, consisting of seed coating of herbicide tolerant maize varieties, has prove to be very effective in farmer...