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Effect of Zinc Containing Fertilizers on Yield and Grain Quality of Tef [(Era... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Zinc is an essential micronutrient for crop growth and human diet. Its deficiency is widespread in soils of Tigray Region. To evaluate the effects of Zn fertilizers on yield and quality of tef in ten Zn deficient soils of Tigray, greenhouse experiment composed of five treatments in a completely randomized design with three replications were conducted....Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Evaluation of Sorghum for Salt Stress Tolerance Using Different Stages as Scr... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Salinity is one of the major environmental problem that lead to deterioration of agricultural land and, as a result, to reduction in crop productivity. Evaluation of sorghum varieties/lines for salt tolerance were conducted with the objectives to evaluate and identify salinity stress tolerance and to determine the effect of salinity at different levels of...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Genetic Analysis of Early Growth of Crossbred Dairy Cattle in Central Ethiopi... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)The study was carried out to estimate the covariance components and genetic parameters associated with growth traits of crossbred cattle using random regression models as well as to examine their trend over trajectories. The study encompassed a total of 13,839 body weight records taken across different months from birth up to 540 days of age on 902 F1 HFB...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Hybrid Performance and Combining Ability of Quality Protein Maize Inbred Line... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Poor soil fertility is among the major abiotic stresses affecting maize productivity in Ethiopia. The objectives of this study were to assess hybrid performance and estimate combining ability of elite QPM inbred lines under optimum and low-Nitrogen (Low-N) stress conditions. One hundred and six testcross hybrids generated from line x tester crosses were...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
CoW 2023. Cascape Legacy Soil Profile dataset N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Although soil and agronomy data collection in Ethiopia has begun over 60 years ago, the data are hardly accessible as they are scattered across different organizations, mostly held in the hands of individuals (Ashenafi et al.,2020; Tamene et al.,2022), which makes them vulnerable to permanent loss. Cognizant of the problem, the Coalition of the Willing...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Occurrence of Mycotoxins in Stored Maize in Ethiopia N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Mycotoxins are attracting worldwide attention because of their implications for food safety, food availability, and international trading. A study was conducted to determine mycotoxin occurrences in stored maize in 150 samples collected from five major maize growing districts of Ethiopia: namely, Mer-Awi, Wenberma, Chelia, Halaba, and Toke Kutaye. Total...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Agricultural Mechanization in Ethiopian: Experience, Status and Prospects N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Agricultural Mechanization deals with the use of any mechanical aid in agricultural production. These mechanical aids could be simple hand tools, animal drawn implements or sophisticated mechanically powered agricultural machines. The source of energy ranges from humans, animals to engine or electrical power. Generally these are categorized as hand tool,,...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Tef (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter) Variety ‘Felagot’ N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] is the major cultivated cereal crop in Ethiopia and serves as staple food grain for over 65% of the population. The area under tef cultivation is over three million hectares of land each year. Depending on the type of seed color, tef grains are categorized into white and brown, while some admixtures and intermediate...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
ISFM using P fertilizer and Tithonia biomass N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)The effect of applying Tithonia biomass and phosphorus fertilizer on the agronomic efficiency of phosphorus and yield of maize was investigated in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Tithonia (Tithonia diversifolia) biomass and Triple Superphosphate (TSP) were used as organic and inorganic sources of phosphorus, respectively....Created August 7, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Evaluation of Vetch Species and their Accessions for Agronomic Performance an... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Twenty accessions of five vetch species were evaluated for agronomic and nutritional attributes at Holetta and Ginchi in the central highlands of Ethiopia during 2009 main cropping season. The experiment was conducted in randomized complete block design with three replications. Most measured parameters revealed significant (P<0.05) difference between...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Soil Carbon Mineralization Kinetics as Influenced by Changes in Land Use and ... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Conversions of natural vegetation to other land use and soil management systems are often accompanied by changes in soil properties and have environmental implications. Such changes in land use and agricultural practices affect soil carbon pools and contribute to increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Hence, to understand carbon mineralization...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Early Generation Seed Production and Supply in Ethiopia: Status, Challenges a... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Early generation seed production may constitute maintenance breeding of improved variety and regular multiplication and supply of smaller quantities of breeder, pre-basic and basic seed. The main purpose of EGS Early generation seed production is to maintain the genetic potential and identity of a variety and regular provision of high quality breeder seed...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Response of Yield and Yield Components of Tef [Eragrostis Tef (Zucc.) Trotter... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Tef (Eragrostis tef) is one of most important food crops grown in Benishangul Gumuz region of Ethiopia and is produced in different agro-ecologies in the region. However, its productivity is constrained by a number of problems, of which soil nutrient is the most important one. Information on the response of tef to Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P)...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Expression and Purification of Coat Protein of Citrus Tristeza Virus N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) polyclonal antibodies produced either from the recombinant coat protein (CP) of CTV or extracted virus from midrib used for the detection of virus. Compared with intact virion procedure, the use of CP antigen resulted in highly specific polyclonal antibodies. CTV coat protein gene (CTV-cp) cloned in pQE30 vector and transformed...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Estimation of Genetic Parameters for Crossbred Dairy Cattle in the Central Et... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)The aim of this study was to estimate the additive, heterosis, recombination loss, heritabilities and correlations between milk yield (MY), lactation length (LL), calving interval (CI), age at first calving (AFC) and herd life (HL) for crossbred of Friesian (F) and Jersey (J) with Boran (B). Analysis of fixed effects and crossbreeding parameter were...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Towards understanding fertilizer responses in Ethiopia N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)This is a comprehensive dataset specifically on crop response to fertilizers and is obtained from published journal articles, thesis and proceedings spanning at least 5 decades. It represents all the agriculturally productive regions of Ethiopia. The data contains information on region, crop type and soil type under which experiments were conducted, as...Created August 12, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Managing Dry Spell Risks to Improve Rainfed Maize Productivity in the Semi-Ar... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)The existing evidences support that some eighty percent of the world’s agricultural land is rainfed, contributing to the tune of sixty percent to food production worldwide. This empirical research was conducted on-station during June to September main growing season over two years (2000 and 2001) to substantiate that, managing dry spell risks through...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Diversity Analysis of Ethiopian Mustard Breeding Lines Using RAPD Markers N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata A. Braun) is an oilseed crop less known to the other parts of the world. Utilization of the available germplasm of B. carinata for different breeding purposes requires information on genetic diversity. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) was employed to characterize the genetic diversity of 22 B. carinata inbred...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Cost and Benefit Analysis of Dairy Farms in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)This study was conducted to estimate costs and gross profits of dairy farms under small and large diary management in central highlands of Ethiopia. Thirty-five small and 25 large farms were randomly selected. Quantitative data was collected from sampled households/farms for six to seven consecutive months. Qualitative data was also collected to...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Grain Yield and Nitrogen Uptake of Maize (Zea mays L.) as Affected by Soil Ma... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Published articleCreated August 7, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023
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