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Attitudes towards Conservation Agriculture Practices in Tajikistan

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Title Attitudes towards Conservation Agriculture Practices in Tajikistan
 
Creator Nurbekov, Aziz
 
Contributor Ergasheva, Tanzila
Dhehibi, Boubaker
Cicek, Harun
Ben Salem, Hichem
 
Description CA is the new approach not only for integrated crop-livestock conservation agriculture
but also as CA itself. There is a little knowledge about CA in Tajikistan especially on its effect of
economic assessment on cost-benefit ratio of crop-livestock CA. Economic assessment of CA
technologies in Central Asian countries shows that there are no significant effects of reduced soil
disturbance on cotton or wheat yields. In Uzbekistan, the initial yield loss that allegedly occurs
when introducing CA was not observed, while savings in operational costs were achieved immediately
(Egamberdiev, 2007; Tursunov, 2009). Sydyk et al., 2009 reported that introduction of
CA technologies has been shown to lower production cost, raise profitability of winter wheat
production and accordingly facilitate sustainable development of agriculture in different forms of
agricultural entities in the south of Kazakhstan. Although the findings from the research on CA
for the irrigated areas in Central Asia are encouraging, there are few reports on the economic aspects
of CA. This is particularly important since the economic profitability of CA practices varies
over time and, like any production system, can be site-specific, which necessitates sitespecific
analyses (Knowler et al., 2001). Furthermore, CA practices regularly require long-term
investments (e.g. in direct seeders and planters), but it is unrealistic to expect that capital investments
for increasing the efficiency of natural resources use will alone be sufficient for convincing
farmers to switch from tillage-based agriculture to CA (Knowler et al., 2001). Taking above
mentioned literature review into account objective of this activity was defined.
There was a homogenous of the surveyed farmers in respect to their experience in CA as
90% of them had not any experience with CA, while some had a little understanding with conservation
agriculture practices. In Tajikistan, some elements of CA can be found within several donor funded projects implemented in the past, but their geographic coverage and number of beneficiaries (mostly farmers)
are relatively small. In order to create awareness about conservation agriculture in Tajikistan to
meet these challenges, three training courses organized for researchers and farmers.
 
Date 2015-09-12
2016-04-27T11:43:00Z
2016-04-27T11:43:00Z
 
Type Conference Proceedings
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/freQx0dO
Aziz Nurbekov, Tanzila Ergasheva, Boubaker Dhehibi, Harun Cicek, Hichem Ben Salem. (12/9/2015). Attitudes towards Conservation Agriculture Practices in Tajikistan. Amman, Jordan.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4677
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Language ru
en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
 
Source The role of agriculture in food security conference;