The productive safety net program is primarily designed to provide cash or food transfers to
chronically food insecure households, in order to prevent household asset depilation as well
as create community asset. In doing ...
The practices of improved sheep production are getting importance but the participation of
smallholder farmers in improved sheep production was below expectation and not specific
studies to determinants of smallholder ...
Land tenure insecurity, poor extension services, physical land characteristics, demographic
and institutional factors contributed to poor land management. This study was conducted to
assess determinants of sustainable ...
A study was conducted to document how smallholder farmers in Ethiopia utilize desho grass (Pennisetum pedicellatum)
and explain the determinants of alternative and competing uses of the grass. The study was conducted using ...
Women constitute nearly half of the Ethiopian population and they are involved in different
sectors of the economy. Although poor women are engaged in heavier and highly time
consuming workloads, they never obtain the ...
In central rift valley of Ethiopia, land degradation resulting from soil erosion and nutrients
depletion is a serious environmental and socioeconomic problem. Although different soil and
water conservation technologies ...
Chlorophyll and Nitrogen are related to each other. Estimating one will help to predict the
other. Many techniques are invented to estimate these two. In many cases evaluation of
chlorophyll and nitrogen content in plants ...
A field experiment was conducted at “Choba” on-farm, Gimbo district in Kaffa zone,
Southwestern Ethiopia during the 2015 main cropping season to determine optimum rate of N
application and the best variety based on N ...
Hot pepper (Capsicum annum L.), its green pod and Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) are widely
grown in Hawassa area by smallholder farmers as a mixed cropping system with different
population densities of basil. Hence, an ...
Intensive crop cultivation through inter-cropping is a reasonable agronomic practice to
fulfill and sustain food security in areas like Wondo Genet where there is shortage of
arable land. An experiment was conducted at ...
Essubalew getachew; Abush Tesfaye; Ali Mohammed(2011)
Green bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) takes the highest share among the leading vegetables exported to
European and Middle East markets. Recently, it is becoming one of the most important vegetables in
local markets as well. ...
Climate change is driving the call for smart agriculture within the African context. In Ethiopia, at
national level policy makers recognized its importance; but it is not clear whether the national
feeling is trickled ...
Coffee husk is the most abundantly available agricultural waste in many coffee-producing
areas of the tropics including Ethiopia. To date, it does not have much commercial or
industrial value other than, becoming the ...
Moringa (Moringa stenopetala
Keywords/Phrases: ‘Bulla’, Moringa,Table sugar
) belongs to the family Moringaceae and grown for food,
pharmaceutical use and various purposes. In tissue culture, the major media
costcontribution ...
Effective use of land and water is fundamental to growth and sustainable development, however uncontrollable
amounts of water can adversely affect the survival of living things. Development of one day probable ...
Consumption of variety of foods, diversified diet, and nutritionally adequate and good quality
diet is essential for child health. However, the dietary quality of complementary foods in Jimma
Town is not yet studied and ...
Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is grown throughout the tropics and subtropics of the world and its
production and productivity is limited by several biotic and abiotic factors. Mango anthracnose,
caused by Colletotrichum ...
t Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are associated with the root system of coffee (Coffea arabica L.)
plants, but their distribution in smallholder agroforestry and
monocultural coffee systems is not well known. This ...