decades have witnessed a proliferation of private seed companies in the maize seed industry (Hassan et al., 2001; Lemonius …, 2005). Although the total number of registered maize seed companies increased from 8 and 11, respectively, in 1997 to 40 … study involving 117 seed providers, representing 92 percent of all registered maize seed companies in ESA in 2007 identified …

credit constraints and invest in high yielding maize seed varieties. We use a semiparametric estimator of binary outcomes … decisions. Our results show that nonfarm income has a positive and significant effect on the adoption of improved maize seed.C …

determinants of subsidized maize seed and fertilizer receipt, and to estimate how input subsidies affect households’ commercial … purchases of improved maize seed varieties. In both countries we find that households in areas where the ruling party won the … each additional kilogram of subsidized maize seed acquired by a household reduces its commercial improved maize seed …