The study was conducted to investigate farmers’ perception of soil erosion, participation and adoption of soil conservation technologies (SWC) in Geshy sub-catchment of Gojeb river catchment, Omo-Gibe basin, Ethiopia...The study was conducted to investigate farmers’ perception of soil erosion, participation and adoption of soil conservation technologies (SWC) in Geshy sub-catchment of Gojeb river catchment, Omo-Gibe basin, Ethiopia during 2016. The study is based on a detailed survey of 77 households using structured interviews, field observation and focus group discussion. Descriptive and chi-square statistics were applied to analyze factors that affected farmers’ perceived soil erosion severity, participation and adoption options. The results revealed that about 79% of farmers perceived soil erosion problem and its consequences and 97.4% of them believed that it can be controlled. Almost all (97.4%) farmers acknowledged the presence of SWC technologies and about 92.2% of them were participated in conservation activities voluntarily. Thus, 93.5% of them realized decreasing rate of soil erosion and 79.9% of them observed an increasing trend in soil fertility status. Consequently, 94.8% of them confirmed the potential of SWC technologies to halt land degradation and improve land productivity. Furthermore, 98.7% of them were willing to adopt with very good adoption judgment and 94.8% of them were willing to continue maintaining constructed technologies in the future. Principally, farmers’ perception of soil erosion, their genuine participation derived from their conviction, and adoption of induced SWC technologies are the decisive elements for the success of watershed management interventions.展开更多
Development of smart grid technology provides an opportunity to various consumers in context for scheduling their energy utilization pattern by themselves.The main aim of this whole exercise is to minimize energy util...Development of smart grid technology provides an opportunity to various consumers in context for scheduling their energy utilization pattern by themselves.The main aim of this whole exercise is to minimize energy utilization and reduce the peak to average ratio (PAR) of power.The two way flow of information between electric utilities and consumers in smart grid opened new areas of applications.The main component is this management system is energy management controller (EMC),which collects demand response (DR) i.e.real time energy price from various appliances through the home gateway (HG).An optimum energy scheduling pattern is achieved by EMC through the utilization of DR information.This optimum energy schedule is provided to various appliances via HG.The rooftop photovoltaic system used as local generation micro grid in the home and can be integrated to the national grid.Under such energy management scheme,whenever solar generation is more than the home appliances energy demand,extra power is supplied back to the grid.Consequently,different appliances in consumer premises run in the most efficient way in terms of money.Therefore this work provides the comprehensive review of different smart home appliances optimization techniques,which are based on mathematical and heuristic one.展开更多
文摘The study was conducted to investigate farmers’ perception of soil erosion, participation and adoption of soil conservation technologies (SWC) in Geshy sub-catchment of Gojeb river catchment, Omo-Gibe basin, Ethiopia during 2016. The study is based on a detailed survey of 77 households using structured interviews, field observation and focus group discussion. Descriptive and chi-square statistics were applied to analyze factors that affected farmers’ perceived soil erosion severity, participation and adoption options. The results revealed that about 79% of farmers perceived soil erosion problem and its consequences and 97.4% of them believed that it can be controlled. Almost all (97.4%) farmers acknowledged the presence of SWC technologies and about 92.2% of them were participated in conservation activities voluntarily. Thus, 93.5% of them realized decreasing rate of soil erosion and 79.9% of them observed an increasing trend in soil fertility status. Consequently, 94.8% of them confirmed the potential of SWC technologies to halt land degradation and improve land productivity. Furthermore, 98.7% of them were willing to adopt with very good adoption judgment and 94.8% of them were willing to continue maintaining constructed technologies in the future. Principally, farmers’ perception of soil erosion, their genuine participation derived from their conviction, and adoption of induced SWC technologies are the decisive elements for the success of watershed management interventions.
文摘Development of smart grid technology provides an opportunity to various consumers in context for scheduling their energy utilization pattern by themselves.The main aim of this whole exercise is to minimize energy utilization and reduce the peak to average ratio (PAR) of power.The two way flow of information between electric utilities and consumers in smart grid opened new areas of applications.The main component is this management system is energy management controller (EMC),which collects demand response (DR) i.e.real time energy price from various appliances through the home gateway (HG).An optimum energy scheduling pattern is achieved by EMC through the utilization of DR information.This optimum energy schedule is provided to various appliances via HG.The rooftop photovoltaic system used as local generation micro grid in the home and can be integrated to the national grid.Under such energy management scheme,whenever solar generation is more than the home appliances energy demand,extra power is supplied back to the grid.Consequently,different appliances in consumer premises run in the most efficient way in terms of money.Therefore this work provides the comprehensive review of different smart home appliances optimization techniques,which are based on mathematical and heuristic one.
