1.6 Limitations of the Study

1.6 Limitations of the Study The key limitations of the survey stem from the survey design approach, which avoided the “with and without” comparison to ascertaining the effect of adoption of GAP on cassava sorghum and rice. This concern was however circumvented through the conduct of farmer interaction to affirm that only the adoption of ATASP-1 technologies caused the effects noticed. Other issues of concern were the obvious challenge of reliance on value chain actors' recall, given that the baseline survey relates to agricultural season which proceeded the year of survey. The problem of translation from English to vernacular was also an important concern, but was mitigated through the use of enumerators based in the sampled communities.