Author : Hailu Birara
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783659438424
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Influencing Factors of Soil and Water Conservation by : Hailu Birara
Download or read book Influencing Factors of Soil and Water Conservation written by Hailu Birara and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ethiopian economy is predominantly agrarian, where almost half of the GDP is contributed by agricultural sector. However, the performance of the sector is very weak and suffers from various setbacks. Technological backwardness, environmental degradation, population increase and related pressure. The Amhara Regional State is one which highly affected by land degradation through soil erosion. To reverse the severity of the problem, soil and water conservation practices were introduced in different parts of the region including the study area. However, the attempt has been limited. Various factors, such as, households, socio-economic, physical and institutional factors, are attributed for the limited soil and water conservation practices of the past decades. The result of binary logit also showed that, total farm size, household labor availability, training on soil and water conservation practices and farm slopes were the major factors that affect the adoption of improved soil and water conservation practices positively, while farm distance of the households from the residence is negatively significant with plots far to the residences.