Adoption of integrated soil fertility management by groundnut farmers in Eastern Uganda

Bonabana‐Wabbi, Jackline; Mogoka, Hezron; Semalulu, O.; Kirinya, Julian; Mugonola, Basil

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“…Farouque et al [44] identified farm size and media contact of farmers as significant predictors producing positive regression coefficients on the perception to use integrated soil fertility and nutrient management for crop production in Bangladesh. Besides, Jackline et al [45] provided supportive results that training and household size of farmers had been found to influence the decision to adopt improved technologies of soil fertility in Uganda.…”

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Determinant Factors of Farmers’ Performance Regarding Fertilizer Application: An Overview from Bangladesh

Bagum

Uddin

Hassan

et al. 2019

AJAEES

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Aims: Farmers of Bangladesh use a less amount of urea fertilizer compared to the nutrient requirement and soil fertility status. Hence, a significant gap between actual and recommended doses of fertilizers used by farmers have been reported in many instances. Therefore, this study assessed farmers’ performance towards fertilizer application, and explored the contribution of selected characteristics on that performance. Study Design: This study employed a cross-sectional survey method using a correlational and descriptive research design. Place and Duration of the Study: The study was conducted in twenty-one villages of Gaibandha district in Bangladesh during 17 July, 2017 to 20 September, 2017. Methodology: A total of 355 farmers were selected as sample using multistage random sampling. Data, collected using structured questionnaire, were subjected to descriptive analysis, Pearson correlation and multiple linear regression for describing the level of selected variables, their relationships and their contributions on farmers’ performance, respectively. Results: Most (45.9%) of the farmers had high level of performance regarding fertilizer application. Farmers’ age, household size, educational level, farm size, training received, extension media contact, knowledge and attitudes of farmers had positive and significant relationship with their fertilizer application performance. Regression model explained 45.3% of variance of farmers’ performance where age, household size, farm size, training received, extension media contact, knowledge and attitudes of farmers were found significant predictors of farmers’ fertilizer application performance. Knowledge was found to be the most contributing factor followed by age and training received. Conclusion: The study concludes with recommendations that are expected to improving fertilizers application scenario of Bangladesh.

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Determinant Factors of Farmers’ Performance Regarding Fertilizer Application: An Overview from Bangladesh

Bagum

Uddin

Hassan

et al. 2019

AJAEES

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“…That is, a unit increase in farm size could result to a significant influence on the adoption of the improved rice varieties by .494 in the study area. Farm size was identified as an important socio-economic factor by (Jackline, 2002) in an adoption study of agricultural technologies.…”

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Analysis of Adaptation to Climate Change Among Rice Farmers in Werstern Zone of Bauchi State, Nigeria

Bello¹,

Ibrahim²,

Yakubu³

2023

JASD

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The study analyzed the adaptations to climate change among rice farmers in the Western Zone of Bauchi State. Multi-stage sampling technique was used in selecting 140 respondents, data were collected using structured questionnaire and analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Result reveals that 41.4% of the respondents were within the age of 36-45 with a mean of 28 years. About (33.6%) of the respondents has the household size of 8-10 with a mean of 8 persons per household, and about (42.9%) of them had primary education. The result further reveals that most (82.9%) of the respondents were married and about (41.4 %) had a farming experience of 16-21 with a mean of 13 years. It also shows that about (47%) of rice farmers had quarterly extension visit. The result revealed that (67%) of rice farmers perceived increased in temperature as the effect of climate change in the study area, about (18.1%) of the respondents perceived high cost of inputs as the major constraints to adaptation strategies by the rice farmers. The regression result reveal that marital status, age of the farmers, educational level, farming experience, farm size, access to extension and extension visit had a positive coefficient and significant (P<0.01). The major constraints to the adoption of existing climate change adaptation strategies by rice farmer are high cost of inputs, insufficiency of financial resource, high cost of labour and inadequacy of climate information, The study concluded that socio-economic characteristic of farmers play a significant role in perceptions and adaptations to climate change among rice farmers in the study area. Marital status, age of the farmers, educational level, farming experience, farm size, access to extension and extension visit were the significant factors influencing perception and adaptations to climate change by rice farmers in the study area. Based on the finding, it is recommended that, Extension agents should sensitize and raise awareness to climate change, adequate media information should be provided by the various agricultural programmes (ADPs) so as to create conducive policy that will enhance adaptive capacity of the farmers to mention few.

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“…This means that the farmers who participate in more number of training, they are have more knowledge of catfish culture and feed management than those of farmers who didn't or participated less number of training. According to empirical data, training is a useful method for enhancing knowledge, especially when it comes to minimizing technology-related subjective uncertainty (Jackline et al, 2016;Nejadrezaei et al, 2018;Caffaro et al, 2020;Uddin et.al., 2022) [31,35,11,50] .…”

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Knowledge of fish farmers on using artificial feed for catfish culture

Sheheli,

Akter,

Hasan

et al. 2023

Int. J. Fish. Aquat. Stud.

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Bangladesh's numerous inland lakes and river systems make capture fisheries and aquaculture here very promising. Bangladesh is producing more catfish since they are exceptionally resilient and can tolerate harsh weather conditions and unstable habitats. The aims of the research were to assess fish farmers' knowledge of using artificial feed for catfish culture and to identify the variables affecting their knowledge level. Thus, the research was conducted in three villages of Gauripur upazila (sub-district) of Mymensingh district. In-person interviews were conducted with 80 randomly chosen catfish farmers. According to the findings, the vast majority of respondents (63%) had medium-level and 32% had high and 5% of farmers found which have a low level of knowledge on using artificial feed for catfish culture. Formal education, fish farming experience, farm size, annual income, social mobility, communication exposure and training received were positively and significantly correlated with the knowledge of the respondents. Multiple linear regression analysis confirmed that formal education, communication exposure, and training received significantly influenced fish farmers' knowledge. High cost of fish feed, inaccessibility of good quality fish feed and lack of proper training were identified as the major problems faced by the fish farmers. In connection to these difficulties, development agencies such as Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute, relevant nongovernment and private organizations should take appropriate action like regular need based training, method demonstration, result demonstration, field day, other extension activities to increase the fish farmers' knowledge on using artificial feed for catfish culture.

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Adoption of integrated soil fertility management by groundnut farmers in Eastern Uganda

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

Determinant Factors of Farmers’ Performance Regarding Fertilizer Application: An Overview from Bangladesh

Determinant Factors of Farmers’ Performance Regarding Fertilizer Application: An Overview from Bangladesh

Analysis of Adaptation to Climate Change Among Rice Farmers in Werstern Zone of Bauchi State, Nigeria

Knowledge of fish farmers on using artificial feed for catfish culture

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