Agroforestry is a sustainable land management system which integrate production of crops, forest trees and animals at the same time on the same unit of land and put on management practices that are friendly with local population. Population growth and continuous use of agricultural land are the major causes of soil fertility reduction in rural Ethiopia and also in the study area. Existing land suitable for agriculture or crop production, grazing or forestry is decreasing while human populations are gradually increasing. As the population continues to grow, the gap between supply and demand for agricultural land continues to expand. Such a situation is leading to severe land use conflicts between the crop production and other type of land use such condition leading to reduction of 4 agroforestry practice. Despite this, one of the solutions to meet diverse people’s requirement with fixed land is through the application of agroforestry which is more advantageous than mono cropping. Agroforestry practices play important role so in order to strengthen and make the existing practice effective. This study was conducted to assess adoption of agroforestry practices in assosa woreda. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results showed that most of the sampled house hold heads 89 (64.5%) are not practicing agroforestry technology in the study area. Some of the major Agroforesty practices that have been commonly implemented include alley cropping, homegardens, and tree on crop land. The attitude of farmers towards agroforestry practice is positive and is well understood that agroforestry increase farm income, soil fertility, decreased complete crop failure and helping resolving fuel wood demands. Agroforestry technologies are not very well practiced so far in Assosa destrict due to different reasons. The government and other concerned organization should try to reduce the independent factors that affect adoption of agroforestry practice significantly through providing the necessary materials and creating awareness to farmers.
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