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Adoption of minimum tillage and residue retention increased.
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e0“Despite increased adoption of minimum tillage and residue retention”
Title
Adolph Katunzi; Ndabhemeye Mlengera; Marco Mng’ong’o; et al. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 2025. doi:10.3389/fsufs.2025.1706205
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- Observation Maximum and minimum temperatures showed a warming trend of 0.040 and 0.026 °C per year.
- Observation Annual rainfall varied widely, between 903.9 and 1518.7 mm.
- Intervention effect In 2021, maize yield under planting basins (8.5 t/ha) was higher than under no-till (6.2 t/ha).
- Intervention effect In 2021, maize yield under planting basins (8.5 t/ha) was higher than under conventional ox-ploughing (6.0 t/ha).
- Intervention effect CA practices reduced production costs for maize.
- Intervention effect CA practices increased profit margins for maize (USD 526.9 vs. 176.6).
- Intervention effect CA practices increased profit margins for beans (USD 917.4 vs. 376.3).
- Observation Barriers to CA included residue burning, crop-livestock competition, and limited access to inputs.
- Recommendation The authors call for policy support, tailored extension and institutional coordination to scale CA.