14 research outputs found
Income Generating Activities of Women on Home Garden Farming in Damot Gale District (Woreda) of Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia.
No full textA sample of 200 households and their home gardens were inspected to study the role of women in income generating activities of home garden farming in 10 kebeles of Damot Gale woreda in 2014/2015. 20 households were selected from each kebele. The total selected households were 200, of which 100 (50%) households were male headed, and identified by simple random sampling method and the rest 100 (50%) were female headed households. Data was collected from total 200 households through interview, field observation, conducting discussion with informants, and asking questions. Data from 100 male headed households and from 100 female headed households were collected and used to compare the role of female in income generating activities of home garden farming. Women from female headed households have full right to decide the use of resource, land and they have right to make decision on the use of land and its products. But women from male headed household’s donot access land in their own right and at they not only lose their right of access to land, but are also forced to leave their marital homes and return to their places of birth. Culturally, the women are expected to indoor activities and use right of the products but have no decision making power. In general 76 crop species were listed with distinct feature of polycultural agro-system with a universal occurrence of enset (Ensete ventricosum) and coffee (Coffea robusta). 40 plant species of better price were identified. All plant species of better price were cultivated, cared, controlled and managed by men. Condiments/fragrances were cultivated, cared, controlled and managed by women in both household types and all crop species in female headed households were managed by female. Only 7 (0.03%) women from male headed households responded as they have right to make decision on the product of home gardens. In other round from 100 female headed households’ 13 (0.13%) women’s home gardens were cared, managed and controlled by their children or relatives. This is due to different factors such as an age case, physical problems, religious influences, financial shortage or social pressure upon the resource owner that inhibit the owner/women from the direct involvement of income generating activities on their home gardens. They could involve directly in income generating activities of home garden. In average, annual return of home garden ranges from birr 800 to 1500 in monetary value besides to home consumption. Keywords: Damot Gale, Home Garden, Household, Income Generation, Women Activities
Assessment of Indigenous Knowledge Usedto Control Pests and to Reduce Risks of Pesticides in Wolaita and Dawuro Zones
No full textThe research aimed at an assessment of indigenous knowledge used to control pests and the effect of using pesticides on the environment was done in Wolaita and Dawro zones in Southern Ethiopia. From both zones a total of 7 weredas, 33 kebeles and 165 respondents were selected and ethino-biological information was collected using pre-designed semi-structured interview items, guided field work technique and participant observation. Data was analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative methods (of Martin, 1995 and Cotton, 1996). Among the 165 respondents, 156(94.54%0 were males. 70(42.42%) of the informants were found between 21and 40 years of age,73(44.24%0 between 41& 60 ,21(12.73%)were from 61to 80 and only 1 (0.61%) of them were above 80. Regarding their educational status 113(68.48%) had an educational level from grade 1-12. As of the main crops are concerned, the main seed crops in the study area are wheat, barley, pea and bean are dominant in dega and weina dega agroecology and maize, teff sorghum and haricot bean are in kola. Apple and pear are dominant fruits in dega and weina dega while tomato, orange mango and banana are dominant in kola. A rodent such as mole rats are causing series problems and therefore farmers are continually developing varies strategies, a trap developed locally to control them. Weeds such as Dodder /Cuscuta campestris and Oxalis regnellii can be controlled by picking/uprooting and burning, crop rotation and regular visiting/follow up (Early Weeding/Timely farming, hoeing/cultivating 3-4 times, weeding). Some plants like Persicaria senegalensis, Veronica aruensis and Pscnostachys abyssinica are used as biological control of some insects, disease, etc and some of insect such as lady birds (lady bugs)-Coccinella septempunctata in Gasa chare Kebele of loma woreda, Dawuro zone are found when they are feeding on aphids ( Brericoryne brassicae),so they are serving as biological control. Most of them (95%) do not use pesticide; instead, they use indigenous knowledge that does not require any expense/financial source. The efficacy of intercropping, the combination of animal dung and urine for curing of enset wilting disease and planting of Pscnostachys abyssinica ‘Olomua’ in the enset crop field activities should be encouraged. Keywords: Crops, Dawuro, Indigenous Knowledge, Pests, Wolait
Indigenous Knowledge On Management Of Home Gardens And Plants In Loma And Gena Bosa Districts (Weredas) Of Dawro Zone, Southern Ethiopia: Plant Biodiversity Conservation, Sustainable Utilization And Environmental Protection
No full textThe home garden is a small-scale traditional agricultural ecosystem and is locally known by the name Daaddaa/Emeriyaa in Dawro language and has played an important role in conservation and sustainably utilization of plant biodiversity as well as in adaptation to the changes in climatic conditions of the environment. The information was gathered through semi-structured interview conducted with100 home garden owners. Samples of 100 home gardens (HGs) were considered and data on 214 plant species distributed in 174 genera and 63 families were collected from 300 plots of 5mx10m each. The data were analyzed using SPSS computer software. The procedure for preference ranking and Shannon diversity index were also applied
Spice and Medicinal Plants Production and Value Chain Analysis from South-West Ethiopia
No full textNon Timber Forest Products like coffee, honey and spices, form an important part of livelihood strategies of the people in South-West Ethiopia. In addition, they can be an incentive to leave the forest intact instead of cutting down trees for agriculture. This study tries to fill some of the gaps in the information on marketing opportunities and constraints for spices that grow in the area, specifically for Ethiopian cardamom, Ethiopian long pepper, Indian cardamom and black pepper. From the interviewed 70 farmers in the seven kebeles of the study area 41 were trial farmers and 29 did not participate in the spice trials. 54 men and 16 women were interviewed. A number of traders in the spice value chains were interviewed in order to obtain information on spice production, trade and potential markets. The results show a mixed image on marketing opportunities for spices. The main spices produced and collected by the households interviewed during this study were: Ethiopian cardamom, rue, basil, birdseye chili, chili pepper, garlic, onion, turmeric, ginger, black pepper, timiz and cardamom. Few produced coriander, cinnamon, cumin, mint, thyme and lemon grass. About 38.57% (27) were involved in wild spice collection (all Ethiopian cardamom). About 66.67% (18) wild spice collectors were also cultivating cardamom. Regarding the marketing of spices, farmers and traders face low prices, difficulty finding markets, long transport distances, a lack of capital for transport and extending production, a lack of market information and small volumes to sell. Keywords: - Black pepper, Ethiopian cardamom, Ethiopian long pepper, Indian cardamom and Spice
Ethnobotany of vascular plants use, conservation and management practice in the homegardens by the people of Dawuro in Southwestern Ethiopia
No full textAbstract Background Homegardens (HGs) are well-time-honored traditional land use systems in small plots of land with purposely designed intricate structure and a mixture of planted vascular plants (VPs) for different purposes. Hence, the present study was initiated to investigate the ethnobotanical information of vascular plants of homegardens and their use, conservation and management practice by the people of Dawuro in southwestern Ethiopia. Methods A total of 162 farmer informants were selected and interviewed within a distance of 4 km between the natural forest and homegardens, and 0.8–1 km between the homegardens. Quadrats of three 5 m × 10 m were laid (except front yard) around each living houses. Shannon–Wiener diversity index was used for analysis of diversity. Results There were 345 vascular plants in the homegardens distributed in 252 genera and 79 families. The most frequently recorded plant families were Fabaceae with 38 (11%), Asteraceae 33 (10%), and Lamiaceae 26 (7.5%). The species richness recorded per homegardens ranged from 13 to 59. Ensete ventricosum, Persea americana, Colocosia esculenta, Coffea arabica, Solanum capsicoides, and Ocimum basilicum were the most frequently occurred species. The homegarden was enset-based agrobiodiversity system providing food, medicine and other uses where the highest, 290 species were for medicine. Men are responsible for planting and propagating large-sized plant species in the homegardens, while small-sized were managed by women and children. The α-diversity (H’) ranged from 1.4 to 3.4 and the gamma diversity was 4.2. Culture has positive effect on diversity however, the diversity of species is affected by distance from natural forest (x 2 = 14.825, df = 4, p = 0.005) at P < 0.05 level. Conclusion Awareness raising designed and executed by farmer experts and researchers focusing on managing homegarden is necessary to fill the observed gaps in knowledge and attitude of the new generation. The enset-based homegarden management knowledge and practice as well as avoiding the diseases and other constraints of enset should be given attention. Furthermore, decisions on avoiding the growth and management of invasive exotic plant species like eucalyptus tree in the homegardens have to be made
Diversity, Use and Conservation of Spices and Condiments in the Home Gardens (Derkuwa) of Konta Special District (Woreda), Southern Ethiopia
No full textSuitability Analysis for Enset (Ensete ventricosum Cheesman (Welw)) Cultivation in Maraka District, Dawuro Zone, Southern Ethiopia
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The Utilization and Conservation of Plants of Medicinal Value by Local Traditional Medicinal Practitioners and the Associated Indigenous Knowledge in Dawuro Zone of Ethiopia: Northeast Africa—An Ethnobotanical Approach
No full textAdditional file 2 of Ethnobotany of traditional medicinal plants and associated indigenous knowledge in Dawuro Zone of Southwestern Ethiopia
No full textAdditional file 2. Appendix 2. Types of diseases, their clusters, the ailments used, and the informant’s consensus factor
