Water Hyacinth in a Different Realm: The Case of Bora Woreda, East Shewa Zone, Ethiopia

Biruk Gobena and Mohammed Berhanu
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Mohammed Berhanu: Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute, Environmental Pollution Management Research Directorate, Ethiopia

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2019, vol. 21, issue 2, 51-55

Abstract: The utilization of water hyacinth, which is among worlds aquatic weed that infests rivers, dams, lakes, wetlands, irrigation channels is getting great concern in different countries, despite its known negative impacts like loss of biodiversity through competing for nutrients, loss of water due to evaporation and so on. A cross-sectional study was done to quantify the role of utilizing water hyacinth as mulch at Bora woreda, in May 2018. Data was collected using the observational checklist and questioner and analyzed using Microsoft Excel Version 2010. The Bora Woreda farmers are harvesting more than six hectares of water hyacinth annually from Lake Koka and meanwhile, they are saving about 6400.00 ETB per one hectare of onion cultivation land per year upon using water hyacinth as mulch. The local farmers become a source of alternative solution to control water hyacinth attacking Koka Lake as they are benefiting economically and improving their onion mulching efficiency

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Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2019.21.556057

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