Problématique de l’adoption de l’agriculture de conservation / AC (1995-2015) : étude évaluative et analytique des facteurs causaux (Cas de Ravine Desroches / 1ère Section Limbé)

Abstract

At Ravine Desroches, the first section of the town of Limbe, the problem of erosion greatly corrodes the cultivable area. Soil conservation techniques are known, they are successful. But why farmers make little case? This is the issue arising from the observation that led us to consider this study. So we have come to understand that the adoption issue of conservation agriculture (CA), relative to this question consists of eight elements recorded, among others, in Table 5.12 of this. The issue of the adoption of conservation agriculture does not exclude land holding for which no statutory regulation comes between sustainable management and harvesting rights. There is, added to all this, a lack of knowledge transmission of conservation in the area. The actors, have we said, often use an approach that does not include the farmers in their soil rehabilitation. Without knowledge of the practices associated with CA via some form of communication or information, adoption is unlikely. Indeed, studies of innovation adoption and diffusion have long recognized information as a key variable, and adoption is generally correlated with the availability of information. Information becomes especially important as the complexity of the conservation technology increases (Nowak 1987). The sources of information that influence positively the adoption of CA-type practices may include other operators, media, meetings and extension agents. However, as regards the latter source, Agbamu (1995) shows that the only contact will not promote adoption if information dissemination is ineffective, inaccurate or inadequate. The studies do not always have shown that adoption is correlated with the ease of obtaining information. Broadcast, middle Haitian peasant, promotes adoption when the methods used do not require large expenditures.

The adoption of AC up against particularities of the Haitian environment. This study has led us to understand that the adoption of the CA does not adversely affect the financial capacity of the farmer compared to conventional agriculture. On the environmental, the adoption of CA is environmentally beneficial. On the social level, the adoption of CA is not always a collective decision, and fraught with traditional patterns that require a broadcast time for the crop conditions AC are adopted.