Abstract:
ABSTRACT
This research was investigated the effects of rainfall and temperature variability on wheat, Teff,
Maize and Barley yield in west gojjam zone. The data used in this study were maximum
temperature, minimum temperature, rainfall and wheat, Teff, Maize and Barley yield for the period
1997 to 2016 and Origin 07 and mat lab software were used for the analyses purpose. The weather
parameters were correlated with selected crop yield (descriptive and inferential analysis
techniques were used). Trend of crop yield and climatic parameters were developed and plotted
against time. From this study, there was positive correlation between maximum temperature and
all selected crop production (Maize, Teff, Wheat and Barley). Whereas, there was negative
correlation between those selected crop yields and rainfall in Dembecha and Quarit district. There
has been variability and none stability of Temperature and rainfall in study area, leads to high
variability of crop yields from year to year in the study area. This finding has demonstrated that,
there was an increasing trend of temperature and very slightly decreasing trend of rainfall in
Quarit and Dembecha districts and, conversely, there has been slightly increasing trends of
rainfall in Degadamot district, however, there was variability of temperature and rainfall from
year to year that lead to high variability of crop yield over the study period. In those study area,
Teff production was the most sensitive and affected by climate variability. Results showed that
crop yield varied regularly with climate parameters. It was concluded that climate parameters
vary in time whose effects given high variability of crop yield. In general, the seasonal and annual
rainfall variations are results of the atmospheric dynamics like macro-scale pressure systems
and moisture flows which are related to the changes in the pressure systems. Whereas, an
increase and variability of temperature happened due to over increasing greenhouse gases and
different unnecessary waste product.