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Article History

Received: 20 August 2024

Accepted: 7 March 2025

First Online: 1 April 2025

Declarations

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: This study is based on survey methods involving interviewing farmers to answer questions about their socioeconomic and farming activities. Entire research methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations issued by Hawassa University institutional research ethics committee. Each questionnaire of this study had a front-page section that required informed consent for interview and publication before the interview could proceed. Interviewers were trained and under instructions to read aloud the consent statement to each interviewee before the interview could advance. Participants were informed that they were under no obligation to answer any questions, or they could stop the interview at any time without giving any reasons and ask that any partial data recorded to be removed from the records.

: The respondent’s participation in the study was voluntary. It ensured the concealment of their identity, and the respondent were informed that their identity would not be known in any study report or publications. Respondents were assured that their household information would be kept strictly confidential and will not be shared with any third party.

: The authors declare no competing interests.