Asessment of Farmers’ Awareness and Adoption on Soil and Water Conservation Practices: the Case of Borebor Micro Watershed, Dera Woreda, Ethiopia
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2016-09
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Addis Ababa University
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The Amhara regional state is highly affected by land degradation through soil erosion, to reverse the severity of the problem, soil and water conservation practice were introduced in different parts of the region including the study area. Even though a number of soil and water conservation methods were introduced to combat land degradation, adoption of these practices remains below expectation this research was conducted in bore bor micro water shed, Dera Woreda South Gondar Zone. It aimed to examine famers awareness on SWC activities, assess their adoption level on soil and water conservation activities and to examine the determinant factors of adoption. Structured questionnaire survey, field observation and focus group discussion method were applied to collect the necessary information from farm house holds for this a total of 107 house hold heads were involved during the study to collect the necessary information. The result showed that the majority of the respondent farmers participated in the SWC practise. Almost all sampled farmers have high awareness about problem of soil erosion on their farm land (91.6%).The majority of sampled farmers believed that soil erosion could be controlled with proper soil conservation measures. 89.7% of the farmers have adopted improved SWC structures such as stone bund &soil bund. One-way ANOVA indicated that there was significance differences between upper, middle and lower section of the water shed. Binary logistic regression model were used to analysis the important factors with regard to SWC the practices. It was found from the analysis that educational level, land security, extension contact, and soil and water conservation training Variables were found significant to affect adoption of soil and water conservation practice.Other variables like farm age, family size, labour availability, amount of livestock on the household, distance of the plot from the residence to home, and land holding were not significant relation to the adoption of improved SWC practice.
KEY WORDS:-adoption, water shed, awareness, conservation, degradation, bore bor
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adoption, water shed, awareness, conservation, degradation, bore bor