5. Conclusion and Recommendations
The study pointed out that 65% of the banana households were of low adoption group of SAPs while 35% of
ones belonged to high adoption group of SAPs. The result showed practices that had high rate of adoption were
related to harvest and post-harvest, indigenous knowledge use, cattle management in fields, crop rotation and weed
control; whereas, the practices adopted in low rate or not adopted were related to input uses (soil, water, chemicals
and seedling), quality management of products, linkage in consumption, production cooperation and product label
establishment. In addition, the study revealed that there were 5 factors that had a significant influence on farmers’
SAPs adoption, namely sustainable agricultural perception, economic status, extension courses, education and
feasibility of practices including sustainable agricultural perception had the most influence on the adoption of SAPs.
The study recommends that efforts to enhance banana farmers’ adoption of SAPs should be focused on
improving sustainable agricultural perception especially the perception in application of inputs as well as enhancing
knowledge and skills of market access and production cooperation. Moreover, extension courses should be
implemented more to improve farmers’ knowledge and skills in terms of SAPs.