Resources Tagged: Ethiopia

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  1. Lower Seed Rates Favor Seed Multiplication Ratio with Minimal Impact on Seed Yield and Quality

    Abstract, Researchgate, 2015 Field and laboratory studies were conducted in split plot design of three replications to determine effects of four sowing rates (50, 75, 100, 125 kg ha-1) and three row spacing (10, 20, 30 cm) on seed multiplication ratio, seed yield, and seed quality of wheat at...
    Ethiopia

  2. Ethiopia : Famine Food Field Guide

    Rural people of Ethiopia are endowed with a deep knowledge concerning the use of wild plants. This is particularly true for the use of medicinal plants, but also for wild plants, some of which are consumed at times of drought, war and other hardship. Elders and other knowledgeable community...
    Ethiopia Wild Plants Medicinal Plants Food Security Famine Food Stress Wild Food East Africa

  3. Sugarcane production under smallholder farming systems: Farmers preferred traits, constraints and genetic resources

    Abstract,Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2016 Smallholder sugarcane production sector is under researched and underdeveloped with limited industrial link and support. The objectives of this study were to assess the current state of sugarcane production, farmers’ perceived production constraints...
    Sugarcane Ethiopia

  4. Research capacity for local innovation: the case of conservation agriculture in Ethiopia, Malawi and Mozambique

    Abstract -The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension- Feb, 2018 Purpose:The limited uptake of improved agricultural practices in Africa raise questions on the functionality of current agricultural research systems. Our purpose is to explore the capacity for local innovation within the...
    Conservation Agric... Ethiopia Malawi Mozambique

  5. The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)

    The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)is a not-for-profit sub-regional organization of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) of 11 member countries, namely: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia,...
    DRC Burundi Eritrea Ethiopia Madagascar Rwanda South Sudan Sudan Tanzania East Africa

  6. Geisho, its uses, production potential and problems in northern Tigray, Ethiopia

    The aim of this book is to bring about increases in the income and welfare of poor peasant farmers in that area through community-irented, self-reliant and sustainable approach to rural development.
    Cash Crops Ethiopia Tree crops

  7. Niger, Guizotia abyssinica (L.f.) Cass

    Niger (Guizotia abyssinica (L.F., Compositae) is an oilseed crop cultivated in Ethiopia and India. It constitutes about 50% of Ethiopian and 3% of Indian oilseed production. In Ethiopia, it is cultivated on waterlogged soils where most crops and all other oilseeds fail to grow and contributes a...
    Monographs waterlogged soils India Ethiopia Oilseed Oilseed Products Oil Extraction Oilseed Plants

  8. Useful Trees and Shrubs for Ethiopia: Identification, Propagation, and Management for Agricultural and Pastoral Communities

    One of the main aims of this book is to benefit the rural people of Ethiopia by encouraging them to grow more trees and shrubs of a wider variety of species than they have up to now. It provides information on a selection of useful tree and shrub species for the range of agroclimatic conditions...
    Pastoral Systems Trees Shrubs Useful Tree Tree crops Multipurpose trees Multipurpose Shrubs Ethiopia East Africa

  9. Study on post-harvest quantitative and qualitative losses of potato tubers from two different road access districts of Jimma zone, South West Ethiopia

    Abstract, Heliyon, 2019 August One of the main challenges facing Ethiopia today is to ensure food security for its highly increasing population growth. Although the country's production is much lower than the national demand, there are high post-harvest food losses. Among several causes at...
    Ethiopia Food Loss Post Harvest

  10. Manual of Highland Ethiopian Trees

    2001-01-01 The SIM Forestry study Project began in 1999 to bring together various sources of information about highland Ethiopian trees and shrubs, and to identify trees and shrubs that should be further propagated.
    Botany Ethiopia Trees