Practices and Challenges of the Agricultural use of Rainwater Harvesting in Amhara Region, Menz Mama Mider Woreda
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2009-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This stlldy was conducted with the objective to assess the practices and challenges of
RWNT, /{J examine the/actors that affect farmers decision to adopt RWNT, to explore the
perception of the local people abollt the lil'nitation and prospects of RWNT, and lastly to
assess the contribution of RWNT to fanners' food security, In order to realize the facts
household survey on 100 fann households having equal number of participant and nOI1
porticipont fa 1'1 ners, two focus group discussions with selected RWf-IT user and 110n user
group (4' farmers, six key it,/ormant interviews with concerned stakeholders were
conducted andfinally secondary data were used to support the primary data,
The stlulv area was selected through a /'Illliti-stage purposive sa/'llpling technique while
sill/pie mlldo/ll sOli/piing was entployed .for surveying the RWHT user ond the non user
.Iitrmef.\', nte study employed both qUClliwtive alld qUCllllitative methods of dow analysis
in order {() in corporate the facts investigated through discussions, interviews ond survey
o( households, Where the qualitative data were used to triangulate the in/cJI'Ination
co/lected through focus gmup discussion and key informant interview, And descripti ve
statistics and Peorson x2-test were used .fbI' quantitative data analysis, The result of
Pea rsoll x2-test has shown that total land size offarmers', livestock availability including
oxen, access 10 credit service, saving, labor availability alld large family size have
positive association with RWHT adoption, And again. the educational status, level of
education of household head (lnd sO/lrce of income /i-oll1 the agricultural sector are
positively (lssociCLIed with RWHT
FUr/hennore, the result from the qualitCLIive data indicated that the overall trend of
RWHT adoption in the study area was found to be increasing, And most of the local
people perception was found to be positive to the RWHT I-Iowever, farmers are
chollenged by institlltional, technological and Jinancial and environment relmed
prohlellls to adopt and to /ltili~e the technology,
Filloil)" the .I'tlldy revealed thm RWI-IT improves the food securitv status offarmers by
itnl'rol'ing their incollle f rol'n rain fed agriculture, and their assets SIIeh as lil'estock
production. There/ore, efforts shouJd be made by the government and other concerned
bodies 10 lI1inimize the structural, institutional ,andfarm.er related challenges in order to
enhance the benefits of RWI-IT
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Agricultural use of Rainwater