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3. An appraisal of sorghum farmers’ trait preferences, production threats and
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important for sorghum to compete with many new crops that have widespread adaptability across varying conditions. Higher yields are essential, not only for rural food security but also for increasing commercialisation (Taylor, 2005). Evidently, continually increasing the farming area of sorghum will be sustainable in the long-term, particularly for semi-arid areas of Africa.
It was also observed that the profitability of sorghum production is not as high as it looks, and still challenges such as availability of stable market exist. On other hand, farmers produce sorghum more for self-consumption and very few households market their sorghum. This could be due to price and demand of sorghum in the market that is still low. The use of poor crop management, low yielding varieties and no fertilizer on the fields are factors that might influence the low productivity of the crop. These could be to unavailability and high cost of the inputs in the districts. The district of Guro had high profit than Mussorize district. This shows that farmers make profit from sorghum production although the production still low. Baiyegunhi and Fraser (2009) reported similar results when they calculated profitability in sorghum production in three villages in Nigeria. Rosenzweig and Binswanger (1992) supported the idea that profitability by farmers is influenced by aversion of risks, their capital and variability of rainfall. Risk-averse farmers prefer a combination of rotation between crops compared to planting a single crop (Willims et al., 2000).
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