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Adoption of improved technologies is seen as a key driver to increase agricultural production and productivity in Ethiopia. Considerable efforts have been made by government and NGOs to disseminate improved technologies in order to boost production and productivity chickpea though the outcome is ...

The role and importance of livestock in smallholder crop-livestock systems and the importance of crop residues (CR) as ruminant feedstuffs in such systems are well established. The effects of genotype (G), environment (E) and crop management (M) factors on yields of grain and CR and the nutritive...

In Ethiopia, low productivity of crops has been one of the significant contributors to food insecurity. Encouraging the rural households’ to use improved agricultural technologies and inputs to increase efficiency of production and productivity are among the important policy measures to address t...

The vegetable has potential to expand the diversity of rural and urban diets thereby improve human nutrition and health. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends an intake of a minimum of 240 grams of vegetable per person per day in order to supply the body with the required micronutrients ...

The current study was aimed to analyze the utilization of crop residue in the mixed farming systems of Ethiopia, to explore the possibility of improving straw yield and nutritive value of chickpea, faba bean and lentil without compromising grain yield and to identify the effect of dung and wood a...

Water resource development is certainly the basic and crucial infrastructure for a nation’s sustainable development. To utilize water resources in a sustainable manner, it is necessary to understand the quantity and quality in space and time. This study was initiated with the objective of evaluat...

Crop-livestock farming systems in Babati are under severe pressure from a fast growing human population. Continuing soil fertility degradation and the extinction of communal resources are linked to low crop yields and high poverty rates among the smallholder farmers. Alternative intensification o...

Fusarium wilt of lentil (F. oxysporum f.sp. lentis) causes huge lentil yield losses in central highlands of Ethiopia. In this study, extensive wilt survey of eight major lentil-growing districts, viz. Adaa, Aleltu, Lume, Gimbichu, Minjar-Shenkora, Siyadebrena Wayu, Moretina-jiru and Ensaro in cen...