Challenges to cultivate Rice Crops
Introduction Ethiopia is confronting diverse climate associated challenges in 2020. The main challenges are associated with the desert locust invasions in the Northeast (Tigray, Wollo and Afar areas) and South-eastern (Dire Dawa and Hararghe) regions of the nation and floods linked with constant heavy rains that has influenced the Fogera plain and the lowland areas of Afar region. In addition, the flooding in the Fogera plain was aggravated by (I) the bad management of irrigation channels of this uncompleted rib river irrigation strategy, which has been under construction since 2008, (ii) shortage of flood management structures in the districts of this Fogera simple, and (iii) the lack of proper and coordinated watershed management practices (e.g. afforestation, terracing and other flood controlling practices) on the upper catchment regions (upland areas) of the Fogera plain, and a scarcity of flood-risk mitigation and investigation to get a fast response. In addition to the exten...