EFFECT OF CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE ON MAIZE PRODUCTION IN SAMIA SUB COUNTY OF BUSIA COUNTY KENYA
Journal Title: International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences (IJPSS) - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 11
Abstract
This study sought to establish the effect of conservation agriculture practices on maize production in Samia Sub County. The study sought to establish the effects of conservation agriculture on maize production guided by three specific objectives namely: effect of minimum tillage, mulching and use of cover crops on maize production within Samia Sub County. The study used descriptive design since it encouraged the use of multiple worldviews by combining inductive and deductive thinking. This design also facilitated the description of the effects of conservation agriculture practices employed in maize production. Purposive sampling was used to collect data from 252 respondents who were chosen using purposive sampling from two groups namely; small holder farmers and community facilitators and agricultural extension officers. Data collection instruments included a questionnaire for farmers and a key informant(s) interview guide Data collected was cleaned, coded and analyzed with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences and the results presented in frequency distribution tables and narratives organized and discussed under the specific objectives of the study. The findings of the study revealed that there was an increase in maize production when minimum tillage and use of cover crops was employed whereas mulching had little or no effect on the increase of maize production in Samia Sub County. The major challenge faced by the small holder farmers‘ respondents was pest and weed control in their farms with lack of fences affecting the few that practiced mulching. The study recommended the following to ensure increased production: formation of small farmer groups to enable them access information easily from them the agricultural extension officer and the community facilitators, adoption of the push pull technology to combat weed and pest infestation of their maize fields and finally fencing off of pieces of land under maize crop to avoid destruction from foraging animals.
Authors and Affiliations
MBETERA ARTHUR CHAKOYO, Mr. William Agembo
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP41857
- DOI -
- Views 374
- Downloads 0
The Effects Of Joining To WTO on Non-Oil Export Of Iran
In this study we aim to evaluate the effects of globalization with the precision and non-precision factors on non-oil export of Iran .The underlying objective of the paper is to provide support for a model that predict...
The effects of implicit and explicit feedback on EFL learners’ grammatical accuracy; the case of regular past tense in English
This quasi-experimental study was an attempt to examine the effects of two types of corrective feedback, namely recast and metalinguistic feedback on the acquisition of English regular past tenseed by Iranian EFL learne...
Self realization is a way of harmony – A study report
The concept of “Self realization” is formulated on the basis of knowledge among own self. However most of the psychologists are interpreted the perception of “Self” as set of characters. The number of crime and crimina...
TEAM WORK’S: The Success Mantra
Teamwork is the key factor to attain success, no matter how big or how small an organization is. In an organization's context, it is simply not good enough to be individually brilliant or creative .While this is certai...
Our Environment and Us
Five elements of creations (Earth, Water, Sky, Air & Fire ) exists in the 'Human' which is most beautiful creation of God, human life is based on environment which also a wonderful gift as we received from the creator....