Table 4.
CSAPs information dissemination pathways and gender (N = 120).
| Climate Smart Agriculture Practices | % of smallholder potato farmers |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female (n = 72) |
Male (n = 48) |
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| Aware of CSA | Information Source |
Aware of CSA | Information Source |
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| Media | N/F | Ext Off | Media | N/F | Ext Off | |||
| Rainwater harvesting and storage | 98.6 | 29.6 | 47.9 | 22.5 | 95.8 | 45.7 | 23.9 | 30.4 |
| Irrigation | 79.2 | 24.6 | 45.6 | 29.8 | 79.2 | 31.6 | 34.2 | 34.2 |
| Mulching | 87.5 | 20.6 | 38.1 | 41.3 | 85.4 | 29.3 | 29.3 | 41.5 |
| Minimal tillage | 84.7 | 23.0 | 34.4 | 42.6 | 79.2 | 34.2 | 26.3 | 39.5 |
| Improved crop varieties | 79.2 | 42.1 | 24.6 | 33.3 | 83.3 | 40.0 | 15.0 | 45.0 |
| Terracing | 90.3 | 26.2 | 30.8 | 43.1 | 83.3 | 32.5 | 22.5 | 45.0 |
| Drainage management | 93.1 | 17.9 | 38.8 | 43.3 | 79.2 | 26.3 | 18.4 | 55.3 |
| Intercropping | 97.2 | 17.1 | 54.3 | 28.6 | 91.7 | 27.3 | 25.0 | 47.7 |
| Agroforestry | 91.7 | 19.7 | 33.3 | 47.0 | 85.4 | 29.3 | 22.0 | 48.8 |
| Synthetic fertilizers | 95.8 | 34.8 | 24.6 | 40.6 | 93.8 | 31.1 | 20.0 | 48.9 |
| Composting | 87.5 | 25.4 | 47.6 | 27.0 | 81.3 | 30.8 | 17.9 | 51.3 |
| Furrow/ridge planting | 83.3 | 28.3 | 31.7 | 40.0 | 75.0 | 33.3 | 19.4 | 47.2 |
| Crop rotation | 97.2 | 25.7 | 35.7 | 38.6 | 89.6 | 20.9 | 18.6 | 60.5 |
| Apical rooted cuttings (potato seedlings) | 23.6 | 5.9 | 5.9 | 88.2 | 20.8 | 27.3 | 0.0 | 72.7 |
| Mini-tubers | 4.2 | 33.3 | 33.3 | 33.3 | 8.3 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 75.0 |
Source: Authors' computation of survey data, 2021.