[PDF] Top 20 Why do smallholder farmers dis‐adopt conservation agriculture? Insights from Malawi

... However, from year 2 onwards, most follower farmers had to self-finance inputs as only 13% received ...grants from year 2 were mainly lead farmers for conducting demonstrations leading to ... See full document

... climate-smart agriculture practice and its influence on household income in the Chinyanja ...climate-smart agriculture practice is very ...climate-smart agriculture practice and its influence on ... See full document

... for smallholder farms in the EGP using minimum soil disturbing implements mounted on ...profit from CA-based SP + NPT rice in farmers’ fields [8]; (x) water balance [27], which showed that wheat ... See full document

... water conservation practice rather than a soil fertility practice per se” (p14), they simultaneously offer contradicting sentiments which seem to discourage the use of planting basins, the most appropriate in-situ ... See full document

... distance from public extension services negatively influenced adoption, suggesting that farmers who are located further away from public extension officers were less likely to practise CA ...distance ... See full document

... the smallholder farming sector of Zimbabwe is apparently slow as well as its growth to a larger scale (Chiputwa et ...2013). Farmers are, in different circumstances and/or for different reasons, unable to ... See full document

... the Conservation Agriculture Regional Working Group (CARWG) for southern African states in 2007, which called for the development of national CA coordinating bodies and enhanced support from the UN ... See full document

... of conservation methods which have been used to conserve soil from being destructed by natural and manmade ...smallholder’s farmers was (16%), and the majority (84%) of the farmers did not ... See full document

... and Malawi, negative effects of CA adoption on food security were observed though these were not statistically ...among farmers who were using ...and Malawi could include the small land areas ... See full document

... Malawi has a sub-tropical climate with a unimodal rainfall regime ( Mutegi et al 2015 ) and one growing sea- son from November to April. Subsistence farming is the main livelihood, supporting over 80% of ... See full document

... (existing farmers’ adoption of agricultural drones) to facilitate the promotion of UAVs in the agricultural ...of Agriculture established the agricultural drone project in ...Members from the ... See full document

... members from both adopter and non-adopter in each group were ...physical conservation structures introduced in the area, causes of erosion problem in the area from their experience and information on ... See full document

... Whereas price of output, seed, fertilizer and income of the household are found to be significant and positively related to share of fertilizer and negatively related with share of purch[r] ... See full document

... the farmers in Kelantan state do not adopt the technology in agriculture, (2) To determine what strategies that have been implement by the organization in the government is the best for ... See full document

... of smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, and that smallholder farmers produce the majority of food in the region, AGRA has developed a robust plan to empower ...increases ... See full document

... that farmers who joined contract farming essentially aimed to achieve higher yields, incomes, improve assets, input usage and savings (Amrouk et ...vary from one area to another, and to a large extent ... See full document

... members, farmers’ access to farm inputs, poor extension services and conflicts among members are challenges faced by members of the farmers’ cooperative societies ... See full document

... Conservation agriculture offers a powerful option for meeting future food demands while also contributing to sustainable agriculture and rural ...the farmers of Mewat District The study has ... See full document

... The aim in this research was to gain insights into what factors influence farmers' adoption of whole farm plans and why, to inform the initiatives of councils such as Horizons Regional C[r] ... See full document

... reasons why people do not feel safe as for the land ...the farmers (20%) do not feel safe for the land they pay the ...private farmers do not see any problems in low supply in ... See full document