Gully erosion in the Ethiopian Highlands dissects vital agricultural lands with the eroded materials adversely impacting downstream resources, such as siltation of reservoirs. While gully expansion and rehabilitation have ...
Haricot Bean is among the crucial food and export legume crops with extended marketing
potential in Ethiopia. Likewise, it plays an important role in enhancing income and thereby
ensuring the food security status of farm ...
Seedling emergence and stand establishment of carrot seeds are often slow and erratic which results in low
productivity. Poor seed quality together with lack of pre sowing seed treatments and improper irrigation
management ...
Irrigation Agriculture plays an important role to maintain sustainable food security by improving agricultural production. Uneven distribution and rainfall shortage resulted in unsustainable food production leading to food ...
Climate change is causing a great environmental, social and economic threats to all of mankind
and across borders in many nations. Perception about the cause, impacts and necessary response
mechanisms to cope with climate ...
Hot pepper is one of the most important vegetables that serve as the source of income particularly for smallholder farmers in many parts of rural Ethiopia but its production is hindered by biotic and abiotic factors. Among ...
Storage of rice is affected by various types of post-harvest pests like rice weevil, lesser grain
borer, and other insect pests. An assessment was conducted to assess the status of storage insect
pests of rice and an ...
Bread wheat is one of the most important cereal crops grown in different parts of Ethiopia.
However, its average productivity in the country is low (3046 kg/ha) as compared to its
yield potential in the world (3500 ...
Onion thrips, Thrips tabaci (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is a major insect pest constraining onion production in the North Eastern Ethiopia. Therefore, field experiment was conducted at Gedo Ber small-scale irrigation scheme ...
Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is one of the major pulse crops grown in the highlands of Ethiopia buttheir yields are reduced by chocolate spot disease problem. This study was conducted at Simada district in 2021 cropping season ...
Freshwater is very vital for the endurance of all living organisms, it is becoming a scarce
resource in terms of quantity and quality. Because it is exposed to physical, chemical, and
bacteriological contaminants emanating ...
Knowledge of the kinds and properties of soils is critical for making decisions for crop
production and land use types. This study was conducted to determine the physic-chemical
properties and identify the major soils ...
The adoption of improved cook stoves is critical performance parameters of the cooking system that must be monitored. No stove program can achieve its goals unless people initially accept the stoves. In Ethiopia agricultural ...
Climate change is happening and perceived as a worldwide environmental issues. It is a
major threat to people's lives and livelihoods. This study identifies the major methods used by
farmers to adapt climate change in ...
services, market and introducing new technologies are forwarded as recommendations. Ethiopia is one of the most vulnerable countries of the world to the impacts of climate variability and socio economic factors that makes ...
Different scientific studies showed that agricultural technology adoption have been affected
by a number of social, economical, environmental and demographic factors. Even though
PSNP program takes a great initiative to ...
Onion (Allium cape L.) is an important vegetable crop commonly produced both for home
consumption and income generation by small scale farmers and commercial growers in
many parts of Ethiopia. However, the crop yield in ...
Production of tomato in Ethiopia as well as in Amhara Region is low; this could be due to
lack of high yielding and high quality genotypes. Therefore, the aim of this study was to
evaluate variability and performance of ...
A field experiment was conducted at Woreta ATVET College demonstration farm in
2020/2021 irrigation season to determine the effect of different rates of nitrogen (42, 84, 126
and 168 kg N ha
-1
) and intra-row spacing ...
Characterization and evaluation of landraces is a key step in finding reliable traits. Although the
barley collection in Ethiopia is increasing in number, the accessions collected lack effective
characterization and ...