A Review on Success and Failures of Conservation Agriculture Practices in Ethiopia

Tesfaw Melkamu Adugna; Dessie Almaw Cherie

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A Review on Success and Failures of Conservation Agriculture Practices in Ethiopia

Tesfaw Melkamu Adugna, Dessie Almaw Cherie

Published in International Journal of Environmental Chemistry (Volume 5, Issue 1)

Received: 4 February 2021 Accepted: 27 April 2021 Published: 14 May 2021

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Agribusiness possesses a key position for the Ethiopian economy, which contributes inside a single year 85% of business of the country’s populace, 95% of arrive beneath development and contributes more than 96% add up to rural yields. Be that as it may, the conventional arrive utilize framework harms this division and welcome over the top soil disintegration by wind and water (runoff) and results the misfortune of soil efficiency. In this respect, conservation agriculture can be seen as a potential alternative for Ethiopia which depend primarily and farming appear prime segment that seem offer assistance in keeping up and moving forward trim abdicate, achieving more flexible cultivating framework with decreased dangers and risks, whereas ensuring and invigorating the biological work of the soil. Most past ponders advocate appropriation of conservation agriculture as a degree for issues brought in ordinary cultivating operation and broad cultivate inputs application center on commerce as regular that pointed as it were maximizing generation, but this innovation have been limitedly received in a few zones. The catastrophe is little agriculturists may come up short to completely acknowledge recommended agrarian innovation bundles, such as conservation agriculture center hones due to numerous components, counting asset and data limitations. In this manner, the point of this article centered on the success and disappointment of conservation agriculture hones in Ethiopia.

Published in	International Journal of Environmental Chemistry (Volume 5, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijec.20210501.12
Page(s)	7-11
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Conservation Agriculture, Ethiopia, Failure, Success

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Tesfaw Melkamu Adugna

Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Assosa Agricultural Research Center, Assosa, Ethiopia
Dessie Almaw Cherie

Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Assosa Agricultural Research Center, Assosa, Ethiopia

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