Authors
Megan Britney Sheahan
Publication date
2011
Institution
Michigan State University. Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics
Description
ANALYSIS OF FERTILIZER PROFITABILITY AND USE IN KENYA By Megan Britney Sheahan
A THESIS Submitted to Michigan State University Page 1 ANALYSIS OF FERTILIZER
PROFITABILITY AND USE IN KENYA By Megan Britney Sheahan A THESIS Submitted to
Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF
SCIENCE Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics 2011 Page 2 ABSTRACT ANALYSIS
OF FERTILIZER PROFITABILITY AND USE IN KENYA By Megan Britney Sheahan Despite
upward trends in fertilizer use on maize fields in Kenya over the past twenty years, it is still
widely viewed that fertilizer use is not expanding quickly enough and that application rates are
not high enough to meet national food security and agricultural development goals. This thesis
takes a critical look at the profitability and use of fertilizer with respect to maize in Kenya using …
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