Open AccessUptake of conservation agriculture technology through farmer field schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Mozambique
Author(s) -
Inácio M. Cipriano,
Didy O. Onautsu,
Titki D. Tarassoum,
Idris I. Adejumobi,
Bily A. Bolakonga
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of agricultural extension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.169
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2408-6851
pISSN - 1119-944X
DOI - 10.4314/jae.v26i1.6
Subject(s) - agriculture , descriptive statistics , multinomial logistic regression , agricultural science , geography , conservation agriculture , agroforestry , agricultural economics , business , food security , sustainable agriculture , socioeconomics , economics , mathematics , statistics , environmental science , archaeology
The study assessed the levels of usage of conservation agriculture technology in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angonia, Mozambique. A structured questionnaire was randomly administered to 192 farmers in each study site to collect data through a multistage sampling process. The study employed descriptive statistics and multinomial logistic regression to examine possible relationships among the study parameters. The results showed that land size used for conservation agriculture was a significant predictor in both study sites. Farmers’ intention to adopt depended on the services of vulgarisation of conservation agriculture technology. The results further showed that Kisangani farmers do not use the three-conservation agriculture technology at the same time, but they use crop rotation (54%). However, farmers use the three technologies (30%) simultaneously and soil cover (38%) in Angonia. The results suggest that efforts to promote adoption in Kisangani should be based on equal provision of extension services in all locations, and that the current farmer field schools (FFS) approach should be redesigned for contextualisation. For both study sites, the results imply that the use of FFS should be adapted to the use of farmer-to-farmer extension services, which can improve the upscaling of conservation agriculture to increase food security in a sustainable manner.