Crop productivity, nutritional and economic benefits of no-till systems in smallholder farms of Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Centeren
cg.contributor.affiliationCape Peninsula University of Technologyen
cg.contributor.affiliationScuola Superiore Sant'Annaen
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.donorDeutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeiten
cg.contributor.initiativeExcellence in Agronomy
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierWalter Mupangwa: 0000-0001-5672-1331en
cg.creator.identifierBongani Ncube: 0000-0003-1936-2768en
cg.creator.identifierMunyaradzi Junia Mutenje: 0000-0002-7829-9300en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13010115en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2073-4395en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalAgronomyen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.ilriCROP-LIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.ilriFARMING SYSTEMSen
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SECURITYen
cg.subject.ilriINNOVATION SYSTEMSen
cg.subject.ilriINTENSIFICATIONen
cg.subject.ilriRESEARCHen
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs
cg.volume13en
dc.contributor.authorMupangwa, Walteren
dc.contributor.authorYahaya, Rabeen
dc.contributor.authorTadesse, Ephremen
dc.contributor.authorNcube, Bonganien
dc.contributor.authorMutenje, Munyaradzien
dc.contributor.authorChipindu, Lovemoreen
dc.contributor.authorMhlanga, Blessingen
dc.contributor.authorKassa, Abrhamen
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-16T11:22:29Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-16T11:22:29Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/127182
dc.titleCrop productivity, nutritional and economic benefits of no-till systems in smallholder farms of Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractSmallholder maize and wheat production systems are characterized by high drudgery. On-farm trials were run for three seasons in Ethiopia. The study assessed the effect of 2 WT direct seeding and growing season on (1) soil quality, and (2) maize and wheat productivity, energy and protein gains, and gross margins, on smallholder farms in Ethiopia. For the wheat crop, the effect of different soil types and agroecological conditions on productivity was assessed. The treatments in paired plots were (i) conventional ploughing practice and (ii) no-till (NT). Soil properties, crop yield, nutrition gains and gross margins were determined. No-till improved soil properties in the short term. No-till produced 1210–1559 kg ha􀀀1 grain, 18–29 GJ ha􀀀1 energy and 121–194 kg ha􀀀1 proteins, and generated 358–385 US$ ha􀀀1 more than the conventional practice in the maize system. In the wheat system, no-till treatment had 341–1107 kg ha􀀀1 grain, 5–16 GJ ha􀀀1 energy and 43–137 kg ha􀀀1 proteins, and generated 230–453 US$ ha􀀀1 more than conventional practice. No-till can be more productive and profitable in the Ethiopian maize and wheat-based cropping systems.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2022-12-29en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMupangwa, W., Yahaya, R., Tadesse, E., Ncube, B., Mutenje, M., Chipindu, L., Mhlanga, B. and Kassa, A. 2023. Crop productivity, nutritional and economic benefits of no-till systems in smallholder farms of Ethiopia. Agronomy 13:115.en
dcterms.issued2023-01-01en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherMDPIen
dcterms.subjectintensificationen
dcterms.subjectmixed farmingen
dcterms.subjectmaizeen
dcterms.subjectintegrated crop-livestock systemsen
dcterms.subjecttractorsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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