Adoption of NERICA Varieties and Their Associated Technologies by Smallholder Farmers in the Northern and Southern Regions of Sierra Leone

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Philip Kamanda ¹ , Edwin Momoh ² , Mark Yila ³ , Masa Motaung ⁴

1 - Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Njala University, Njala Campus, Private Mail Bag, Freetown 47235, Sierra Leone
2 - Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, Sierra Leone
3 - Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute, Njala Agricultural Research Centre, Sierra Leone
4 - Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Faculty of Agribusiness, Education and Extension, Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Botswana.

Received: 2022-01-19 Accepted : 2022-03-19 Published : 2022-03-29

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