Table 2.
Awareness, information dissemination pathways and Practice of CSAPs (N = 120).
| Climate-Smart Agriculture Technology | Smallholder potato farmers |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aware |
Media |
N/F |
Ext Off |
Practice of CSA |
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| F | % | F | % | F | % | F | % | F | % | |
| Rainwater harvesting and storage | 117 | 97.5 | 42 | 35.9 | 45 | 38.5 | 30 | 25.6 | 100 | 83.3 |
| Irrigation | 95 | 79.2 | 26 | 27.4 | 39 | 41.1 | 30 | 31.6 | 38 | 31.7 |
| Mulching | 104 | 86.7 | 25 | 24.0 | 36 | 34.6 | 43 | 41.3 | 77 | 64.2 |
| Minimal tillage | 99 | 82.5 | 27 | 27.3 | 31 | 31.3 | 41 | 41.4 | 87 | 72.5 |
| Improved crop varieties | 97 | 80.8 | 40 | 41.2 | 20 | 20.6 | 37 | 38.1 | 71 | 59.2 |
| Terracing | 105 | 87.5 | 30 | 28.6 | 29 | 27.6 | 46 | 43.8 | 90 | 75 |
| Drainage management | 105 | 87.5 | 22 | 21.0 | 33 | 31.4 | 50 | 47.6 | 85 | 70.8 |
| Intercropping | 114 | 95 | 24 | 21.0 | 49 | 43.0 | 41 | 36.0 | 107 | 89.2 |
| Agroforestry | 107 | 89.2 | 25 | 23.4 | 31 | 29.0 | 51 | 47.7 | 102 | 85 |
| Synthetic fertilizers | 114 | 95 | 38 | 33.3 | 26 | 22.8 | 50 | 43.9 | 114 | 95 |
| Composting | 102 | 85 | 28 | 27.5 | 37 | 36.3 | 37 | 36.3 | 91 | 75.8 |
| Furrow/ridge planting | 96 | 80 | 29 | 30.2 | 26 | 27.1 | 41 | 42.7 | 89 | 74.2 |
| Crop rotation | 113 | 94.2 | 27 | 23.9 | 33 | 29.2 | 53 | 46.9 | 100 | 83.3 |
| Apical rooted cuttings (potato seedlings) | 27 | 22.5 | 3 | 14.3 | 1 | 3.6 | 23 | 82.1 | 9 | 7.5 |
| Mini-tubers | 7 | 5.8 | 2 | 28.6 | 1 | 14.3 | 4 | 57.1 | 2 | 1.7 |
Source: Authors' computation of survey data, 2021.