Effectiveness and Impact of Mobile Phone based Extension Methods to Disseminate Solar Treatment and Triple Bag Technology for Cowpea in Burkina Faso

In developing countries where many people living in rural areas are low-literate learners, mobile phones represent an important new way by which educational content can be effectively and easily delivered in different languages and conveyed in the form that is pictorial and spoken rather than written. A field experiment was conducted in Burkina Faso in 2012-2013 by researchers funded through the USAID supported Dry Grain Legumes CRSP to explore the effectiveness of mobile phone-based animated videos to deliver knowledge and information about two post-harvest technologies (solar treatment and triple bag storage method) to low-literate adult farmers. This dataset is an output of the survey of farmers, extension agents, and village leaders who participated in the training activities using the mobile phone based method and the traditional extension approach to evaluate the effectiveness of these two alternate extension approaches in inducing learning and adoption outcomes among cowpea growing farmers in rural Burkina Faso.