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Mr Japhet’s maize plot (adopter farmer)

in the day-to-day operations of the plots, observe results informed about the demo plots conducted on his
and adopt the practices to their own farms. neighbouring farm. Japhet took the initiative to imitate
the demo process as it was conducted. By the time the
In adoption theory, there are five categories of individuals:
innovators, early adoptors, early majority, late majority, farmer field day was held, Japhet Ndahya’s farm was as
and laggards. In iboja village and Manzese, where farmer productive as Khadija’s farm was.
field days were conducted, most farmers were eager to Japhet was very happy sharing his story as his harvest
do what had been demonstrated. A good example of increased from two to four bags per acre to 22 bags.
this was was Japhet Ndahya who is farming adjacent to “Previously I was harvesting two to four bags of maize
Khadija Hussein, the farmer who hosted the demo plot in in an acre, but this year I managed to harvest 22 bags
Iboja. He repeated the same steps as his neighbour did on of maize. I was not around when they were planting at
his own farm, with similar optimistic results. my neighboring farm but when I came back, I listen to
Khadija and decided that I would do it on my farm. I was
optimistic that what I had from Khadija would work and I
Impact thank God that the harvest has increased ten times.”
Mr Japhet Ndahya was not around during the planting In the same way that Japhet became an early adopter in
stage on Khadija farm. But when he returned, he was Iboje village, the same was observed in Manzese village,

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