Table 4 Agronomic and value-addition activities adopted among the study districts
Items (%) | Districts | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Banja | Fagita Lekoma | Bahir Dar Zuria | Dibatie | Total | Chi-Sq. (χ2) test | |
(1) Cropping systems practiced | ||||||
Monocropping | 27.00 | 33.31 | 6.44 | 15.70 | 20.61 | 4.2*** |
Intercropping | 73.00 | 66.69 | 93.56 | 84.30 | 79.39 | |
(2) Disease and insect pest management techniques used | ||||||
Weeding and hoeing | 7.90 | 14.60 | 2.93 | 3.64 | 7.27 | 36.0** |
Removing dead trees/cutting | 0.00 | 4.22 | 2.16 | 1.20 | 1.89 | |
Spraying pesticide chemicals | 1.11 | 2.80 | 5.00 | 2.43 | 2.84 | |
Intercropping | 13.93 | 12.62 | 14.30 | 12.00 | 13.21 | |
Cultural methods | 5.61 | 5.54 | 6.44 | 4.84 | 5.61 | |
All of the above methods applied | 4.04 | 6.90 | 16.41 | 7.22 | 8.64 | |
No controlling method used | 67.41 | 53.32 | 52.76 | 68.67 | 60.54 | |
(3) Value-addition activities applied | ||||||
Cleaning | 12.44 | 29.20 | 34.32 | 55.40 | 32.84 | 39.2*** |
Sorting | 56.20 | 31.90 | 32.10 | 39.80 | 40 | |
Packing | 2.26 | 1.46 | 5.00 | 3.60 | 3.08 | |
No value-addition practiced | 29.10 | 37.44 | 28.58 | 1.20 | 24.08 | |
(4) Irrigation practice | ||||||
Practice irrigation | 94.45 | 97.20 | 91.42 | 19.36 | 79.61 | 22.8** |
No irrigation | 5.55 | 2.80 | 8.58 | 80.64 | 20.39 | |