<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>The effectiveness and complementarity of field days and small seed packs (SSPs) in delivering Dryland Cereal technologies: A survey of field day participants and agro-vets in Singida and Iramba districts of central Tanzania, Working Paper Series No. 61</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">P</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Audi</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">L</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Sakwera</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">R</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Ziwa</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">E</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Letayo</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">H F</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Ojulong</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">E O</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Manyasa</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>This paper is about the result of a survey done in the 2014-2015 cropping season of field day participants&#13;
and agro-vets who were facilitated to market SSPs and SFPs in Singida and Iramba districts of Tanzania. The&#13;
objective of the survey was to determine whether there was any correlation between awareness creation and&#13;
preferences reported during field days and the demand for technological inputs from the agro-vets. The results&#13;
showed a strong complementarity between the dissemination of information on improved technologies during&#13;
field days and the retailing of SSPs and SFPs in agro-vets. The field days help in creating awareness about the&#13;
benefits and attributes of available improved sorghum and finger millet varieties and associated agronomic&#13;
recommendations; while retailing of the SSPs and SFPs by the agro-vets not only helps promote the demand&#13;
for improved technological inputs but also enhances their accessibility as SSPs and SFPs are more affordable&#13;
to resource poor farmers. Therefore, having field days for awareness creation without improving accessibility&#13;
of technological inputs through sale of SSPs and SFPs or vice versa is futile and does not lead to enhanced&#13;
experimentation and adoption of improved technologies by target farmers...</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Finger Millet</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Sorghum</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2015</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>ICRISAT</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Monograph</mods:genre></mods:mods>