3.2.1. Crop Management Practices

Among the various crop management measures identified in the study area, Table 3 shows that most of the households adopted drought-tolerant crop varieties (72.6%) followed by early maturing crops (70.6%). Other crop management practices adopted by many households included sequencing their cropping (58.7%), changing planting times (51.0%), and introducing new crops not grown previously (40.0%). The least adopted crop management measures were conservation agricultural practices (24.5%) and having plots in other villages or geographical areas (21%).


**Table 3.** Crop management adaptation strategies used by households in Bobirwa sub-district.

Significance levels: \* *p* < 0.05, \*\* *p* < 0.01, \*\*\* *p* < 0.001. Source: Household Survey Data, 2017.

Figure 2 below shows the extent of the adoption of different combinations of crop management measures by households in the study area.

**Figure 2.** Extent of adoption of crop management and adaptation measures (n = 310).

A proportion of 17.8% of the households did not adopt any crop management practice while 82.2% adopted at least one crop management practice between 2006 and 2017. Most of the households (22%) adopted five different crop management measures which was followed by adoption of four different measures (16.2%). Those who adopted three and six different measures were 13.3% and 13.6%, respectively. A mere 2.9% adopted all the seven crop management measures identified in this study while 14.2% adopted at most two measures.
