Relatives, neighbors, or friends: Information exchanges among irrigators on new on-farm water management tools

Dawit Mekonnen, Seid Yimam, Tiruwork Arega, Karthikeyan Matheswaran and Petra M.V. Schmitter

Agricultural Systems, 2022, vol. 203, issue C

Abstract: On-farm water application in Ethiopia, as in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, is dominated by furrow irrigation, which resulted in inefficient water uses and related economic and environmental problems. A recent project introduced two on-farm water management tools, called wetting front detectors and Chameleon sensors, to some farmers in Koga irrigation scheme and facilitated for other farmers in the quaternary canal, who did not receive the technology, to learn from farmers who installed the tools on their plots.

Keywords: Irrigation; Technology recipient group; Information recipient group; Purposeful friendship; Spatial proximity; Information flow (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2022.103492

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