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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 18-21, 2016, Vienna, Austria}}\\[1ex] \Large{``Solidarity in a competing world ---\\fair use of resources''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{Adoption of Soil Fertility Management Practices in Maize"=based Production Systems in Eastern Uganda\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Dorothy Namuyiga Birungi, Makerere University, Agribusiness and Natural Resource Economics, Makerere, 256~Kampala, Uganda, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{d.birungi@yahoo.com}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Dorothy Namuyiga Birungi$^{1}$, Bernard Bashaasha$^{2}$}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{1}$Makerere University, Agribusiness and Natural Resource Economics, Uganda}}}
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Increasing crop yields sustainably appears to be the only way out of the chronic decline in food availability and climate change effects in Sub-Saharan Africa, given the growing populations, shrinking farm sizes and degrading soils. Although inorganic fertiliser use offers an option for increasing agricultural production, it does not provide the whole solution thus the need for continued promotion of conservation agricultural technologies to enhance rural incomes and achieve food security. Worse still, the adoption of these soil fertility technologies for example, conservation and inorganic fertiliser is still very low especially in Uganda. Sub-Saharan Africa displays the greatest gaps between potential and actual yields for a number of crops, particularly maize and rice. To date, no study has investigated factors that affect farmers' adoption of these technologies in Eastern Uganda (Tororo and Kapchorwa districts). This study makes a contribution in terms of understanding factors that influence choice of adoption of Conservation Agriculture practices in maize"=based production systems in Eastern Uganda.



 



Ordered Probit model was employed to analyse determinants of partial and full adoption of conservation agriculture. The study used cross sectional secondary data collected from 402 randomly sampled respondents under the SANREM-CRSP project. Model estimates show that fifty"=seven percent of the respondents had adopted Conservation Agriculture; with average age of 45 years, household size of seven members, acreage of land owned was 3 acres on average and distance traveled to access input and output markets was 1.2 Km. Factors that affected adoption for all levels of adoption included maize variety planted, use of hired labour and access to input credit. Policies that lead to increased investment in better infrastructures, increased investment in provision of extension services and subsidy programs for agricultural inputs are recommended.



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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} Adoption, conversation Agriculture, Eastern Uganda, Maize"=base production systems, Ordered probit model
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