Agriculture Research Papers/Topics

AGRO-ECOLOGICAL ZONING OF IRISH POTATO BASED ON WATER REQUIREMENTS AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN THE RWANDAN HIGHLANDS (A case of Congo-Nile ridge)

The area of study is located in the Northern and western Provinces touching the following districts: Musanze, Nyabihu, and Ngororero. Rwanda Being a country with an economy essentially based on rain-fed agriculture, it is with no doubt vulnerable to negative effects of climate change, its adaptive capacity to impacts related to extreme meteorological phenomena is very low (MINITERE, 2006). The above-mentioned reasons have given us the occasion to conduct our research focusing on “agro ecolo...

ANALYSES AND EVALUATION OF MANAGEMENT OPTIONS FOR ADAPTING MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.) TO CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE IN ETHIOPIA

Abstract: Climate change presents a significant environmental challenge in the 21st century. This study analyzed rainfall and temperature trends in central Ethiopia from 1986-2018, evaluated farmers' perceptions of climate change impact, calibrated, evaluated, and used the CERES-Maize model in DSSAT to analyze impact and explore adaptations. The results showed significant increasing trends in Sen's Slope estimator at Ambo, Bako, Melkassa, Shashemane, Mojo, Batu, and Arsi Negele. The Kiremt s...