Claim · model-written summary
Milk production fell by over 35%.
- Taxon
- Napier grass
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Cenchrus purpureust0 - Outcome
- Milk productione0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Value
- over 35%e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“Milk production had reduced by over 35%”
t0“Napier grass”
Title
Farmers' knowledge and perceptions of the stunting disease of Napier grass in Western Kenya
Z. R. Khan; C. A. O. Midega; I. M. Nyang'au; et al. Plant Pathology 2014. doi:10.1111/ppa.12215
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Most surveyed farmers were aware of Napier stunt disease.
- Observation Farmers reported rapid regional spread of Napier stunt disease.
- Association Access to agricultural information predicted awareness of disease spread.
- Association Napier stunt disease reduced Napier grass yields.
- Observation Most farmers could not feed livestock from their own Napier grass production and bought additional grass.
- Observation Sellers received less income after productivity loss.
- Observation Farmers did not know the disease cause and had no effective management strategy.
- Recommendation The authors recommend an integrated disease management approach suited to mixed farming with simple decision aids.