Practices And Adoption Of Conservation Agriculture And Its Implication On Food Secrutity In Assosa Woreda Benshangul Gumuz Region West Ethiopia

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Despite the recent efforts to increase agricultural productivity in Ethiopia, impact of agronomicrnpractices and soil degradation are the major challenge in agriculture. Mainly, conventional tillagernbased crop production system is highly vurnurable to soil erosion and adverse impact of climaternvariability. As a result, improving smallholders´agricultural productivity needs the adoption andrndiffusion of suitable agricultural technology practices. Among these technology conservationrnagriculture (CA) is being promoted as an option for reducing soil degradation and increasernproduction and productivity. By using socio-economic data of 378 sampled households, this studyrnanalyzed level of adoption in terms of practicing the minimum tillage as a major and soil coverrnand corprotation in combination. Accordingly, out of the total 346 (91.5%) of the farmers are CArnadoptors where as 32 (12.5%) of them are not adopting CA. The other intention of the study is tornknow the kind of farm technology (tools) used by the farmers in practicing CA. The finding of thernstudy shows that 48.7% CA adopting farmers use combination of Hand hoe and Ox drawn plough.rnWhere as 34.7 % use only hand hoe. The observation, KII and FGD done shows that those farmersrnwho have a small plot of land are using hand hoe but as the land size increased farmers are insistedrnto look for other option such as using ox drawn plough. The other objective of this study thernimplication of CA on food security status of the CA practicing farmers. To see the implicationrntwelve month adequate food was used since it was easy tool that could be remembered easily byrnthe farmers. The result shows that 92% of the CA adopters responded that they had enough foodrnfor the last 12 months where as only 12.5% of the respondants confirmed that they had 12 monthrnsufficient food. The food consumption score was also applied and result shows that about all thernCA adoptiong farmers 346 and 9 which (out of 32 non adopting ) are acceptable range while 19rn(5%) of non adopting farmers are in borderline and the rest 7 non adopting farmers are in poorrnlevel clasification. This shows that practicing practicing CA will have positive implication. helprnthe farmers to Accordingly, the food consumption score shows that 94% of the farmers are atrnacceptable level of food security while 5% of them are at borderline and 1% are under ‘poor’rncategory. Regression done to see if the variables will determine the adoption of CA. As a resultrneducation level, age, training , farmers field day participation, experience sharing participation,rnlistening to CA radio programing and being a member of garmers group has significantlyrndetermine the level of CA adoption

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