Bundling fertilizer trees and crops in Malawi's agro-based systems

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Soil nutrient deficiency remains a significant challenge for improved agricultural productivity in the global south. Due to fast population growth and limited landholding sizes, most farmers search for affordable soil fertility enhancing options for their farms. With soaring inorganic fertilizer prices, farmers substitute inorganic fertilizer for fertilizer tree technologies in their cropping systems. Thus, understanding drivers of fertilizer trees adoption would provide requisite knowledge for State and non-State actors to promote the integration of fertilizer trees in crop farms. Therefore, this paper assessed the determinants and extent of adopting fertilizer tree technologies in agro-based systems. A Triple Hurdle model of Seemingly Unrelated Multivariate Probit and Tobit models were used to tune model parameter estimates from 962 farm households. The paper used both quantitative and qualitative analysis. The study found that seed availability, presence of technology suppliers, training, club membership, frequent extension contact, village bylaws, and household income deepens the adoption agenda. Revitalizing missing markets for agroforestry fertilizer tree seed at the community level is a plausible policy option

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