PRISE-PAD Fall Armyworm SMS Alert Pikot Results
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Abstract
This study evaluates the effects of a pilot mobile SMS messages campaign on farmers' knowledge and management of fall armyworm (FAW), an invasive pest of maize that is threatening food security in Kenya.The farmers' participation in the SMS message system was high, with almost 60% of farmers consistently participating through the season.The majority of farmers understood most of the messages, which they found helpful, especially on how to control and prevent FAW.We find that participation in the mobile SMS messages campaigns increased farmers' knowledge about FAW, and farmers reported reduced FAW infestation and increased maize production, as a result of implementing the recommendation actions.Male farmers were more likely to be aware of FAW and knowledgeable about the integrated management of FAW than women farmers.Recommendations are made to improve the clarity of some messaging, expand the service and undertake further analysis to ensure women farmers are able to benefit equally from the PRISE alerts. PRISE-PAD Fall Armyworm SMS Alert Pilot Results Key highlights• Fall Armyworm was the biggest problem on maize crops for 86% famers questioned in the 2019/20 short rains season• PRISE alert SMS messages were 'fully understood' by 87% of farmers.Less than 1% of farmers reported that the messages were unclear, with those related to which pesticide to spray being the most confusing.Messages on how to control and prevent FAW were most highly valued.• 85% of farmers who received PRISE alerts said they would opt-in to receive messages in future.87% of farmers thought that SMS was the best method for sending pest information to farmers.• 59% of farmers changed their practices based on message recommendations, and 43% of farmers changed their practices based on the recommended PRISE spraying dates.The most common outcomes were a reduced amount of FAW and an increase in maize harvest.• Farmers who received PRISE alerts were found to be more knowledgeable about FAW than those who had not received the alerts.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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