Table 1
Main reasons for abandoning conservation agriculture (farmers’ perceptions with possibility of multiple answers).
Principales raisons de l’abandon de l’agriculture de conservation (perceptions paysannes avec possibilité de réponses multiples).
| Social reasons | Economic reasons | Technical reasons | Environmental reasons | Other reasons | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No extension support | 23% | Excessive labor requirements | 10% | Increase of required labor | 17% | Drought | 20% | ||
| Uncontrolled free zebu grazing | 23% | Increase of expenses | 33% | Lack of experience | 7% | Insects | 23% | Retirement | 3% |
| Bushfire (linked also with drought) | 3% | Crops incompatible with CA | 3% | Difficulties to get seeds for associated plants | 10% | Soil compaction | 3% | Health problems linked to agrochemicals | 3% |
| Conflict with the project | 13% | Absence of assistance and bank credits at project’s end | 23% | Difficulties to get agrochemicals | 3% | ||||
| Difficulties to find labor force | 10% | Disappointing economic performances | 3% | Difficulties to control the cover crop | 7% | ||||
| Absence of assistance and bank credits at project’s end | 23% | Other reasons | 7% | Weeds | 7% | ||||
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