Climate Smart Crop Production Practices: Evidence from Woliso Woreda, Oromia Region of Ethiopia
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2020-12
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Climate change is the current worldwide problem and resulting in the land, water, and
forest degradation. The problem has an adverse effect on agricultural productivity, natural
resource and eco-environmental balances. With the help of climate smart crop production
practice, the agriculture activity builds a resilient community to manage climate change
impact, to reduce its effect, and to recover quickly from negative impact. Hence the major
objective of this study is assessing climate-smart crop production practices in Woliso
woreda. To achieve this objective primary and secondary data was collected through
household questioner survey, observation, focus group discussion and key informant
interview. Qualitative and quantitative data were analyzed by descriptive statistics such as
percentage, frequency and presented by chart and table. Different climate smart crop
production activities were practiced in the area such as soil and water conservation
(terracing, planting tree on the farm, planting cover crop and use of the improved variety),
use of fertilizer (chemical fertilizer, compost, farmyard manure, incorporate crop residue
on farm).The study evaluated the perception of farmers on the improvement of the adaptive
capacity from the adverse effect of climate variability and land degradation by practicing
climate smart crop production practices the result shows majority of farmers are effective
on the return of each practices. The study also revealed that climate-smart crop
production practices improve the yield of productivity. The average change of crop yield of
climate smart crop production practices is 61% more with compared to without climate
smart crop production practices. The increasing rate of yield with practicing climate smart
crop production exceeded than without practicing the climate smart agriculture
activities.The progress of productivity of crops and the generated incomes of households
were increased over the consecutive years.On the other hand. This research also identifies
the major barriers to the implementation of climate smart crop production practices, such
as lack of farm tools, financial resources, land shortage and limitation of input supply.
This research recommends that the woreda agricultural office has to identify the soil type
and select the appropriate climate smart crop production practices. Furthermore, climatesmart crop production practice should be implemented based on the investigation of
appropriate climate smart crop production practices for the study area
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productivity, resilience, sustainable land management, climate-smart agriculture