Improving Crop Resilience: Combining Conventional Wisdom with Contemporary Agricultural Methods

Alum Benedict Nnachi

Department of Research Publications, Kampala International University, Uganda

ORCID: https://orcid.org/my-orcid=0009-0005-1485-5776

ABSTRACT

This research explores how dialogue with traditional knowledge and modern science can enhance crop resilience in the problematic areas of population growth, climate change, and resource exhaustion. The research highlights the importance of maintaining genetic diversity in crop gene pools through traditional farming, implementing sustainable methods, managing soil health properly, managing water effectively, empowering farmers through knowledge transfer and skill development, influencing policy and governance frameworks, and embracing technology. We assess crop resilience parameters through a mixed application of qualitative tools and ethnographic fieldwork, where farmers participate in late research to gather traditional knowledge on this particular issue. We also employ the latest crop technologies and techniques, tailored for varying agro-ecological contexts. Bringing together recent technology and old wisdom may provide our agriculture systems with assets that could mitigate the extremely harsh effects of an environmental shock.

Keywords: Genetic diversity, new technologies, conservation water resources, adaptation mechanisms, climate change.

CITE AS: Alum Benedict Nnachi (2024). Improving Crop Resilience: Combining Conventional Wisdom with Contemporary Agricultural Methods. RESEARCH INVENTION JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES 3(1):39-42.