Village based promotion of improved banana technologies for food and income enhancement of smallholder farmers in western Amhara region of Ethiopia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.20372/mwu.jessd.2021.1518Keywords:
Banana, employment, farmers, income, nutrition, villageAbstract
Village-based promotion of banana varieties that gave fruit yield of 64 to 75 tons per ha per year was done at Dera, Gonji-Kolela, and Bahirdar-Zuria woredas of Amhara Region, Ethiopia. The woredas were selected purposely. Hence, this activity was carried out to create wider demand and linkage among actors, to enhance banana technology multiplication food security and income of farmers. The participatory village-based promotion was followed in implementing the activity. About 10,384 banana suckers were delivered and planted on 7.114 hectares of
farmers’ fields making 463 farmers direct beneficiaries. The benefits of banana villages include economic, social, and environmental. Farmers can get 160 to 180 fingers of banana per bunch, 22 to 34 kg of banana fruit yield per
tree, and 35.2 to 54.4 tons per ha. Farmers are fetching good prices in which they got an average of 3,010.17 Ethiopian Birr (ETB) from banana fruit and 569.44 ETB from banana suckers sales that sum ups 3,579.61 ETB from both produce per annum. The banana villages also create employment opportunities for rural youths
and benefiting the women being as source of household income and nutrition.
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