Small-scale cropping for example offers the opportunity of a relatively stable income addition for pastoralists.
The informants narrated that during the gada period of Aga Adi Doyo (1938 1946), only a few people settled on the Badha landscape and initiated small-scale crop cultivation.
Small-scale crop farmers of reed, maize, beans, and rice were also greatly affected.
The adoption of transgenic Bt cotton in West Africa raises novel and important issues related to the sustainability of such technology in small-scale cropping systems.
In Dinsho Wereda, a number of hills which were previously covered by small grass, bush, and forest were converted to small scale crop farms.
Small scale crop and animal husbandry are also practiced.
This large biodiversity was successfully achieved despite the constraints of a small scale cropping system under arid and semi-arid conditions.
Whilst the alternatives, mono-cropping, commercial plantations and small-scale cash crops, fail to offer the same level of environmental protection, with no incumbency upon users to preserve the unique ecosystem, they do offer the prospect of better confronting the invasion, a fact which offers the most significant threat to pastoralists.
Small-scale subsistence cropping and fishing are practiced, but most food is imported.
Limited small-scale irrigated crop cultivation is spread along the riverine areas, and mainly is focused on growing sorghum, maize, green grams (mung beans), cowpeas, vegetables, watermelon, pumpkins, gourds, and bananas.
