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Diversity of Castor (Ricinus communis L.) in Ethiopia N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)An experiment was carried out to assess the diversity of castor germplasm in Ethiopia. A total of 102 accessions, one elite genotype and two standard varieties were characterized at Melkassa and Arsi Negelle, in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia using 12 traits for one during 2013 main season. Analysis of variance, principal component and cluster...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Determinants of Haricot Bean Market Participation in Misrak Badawacho Distric... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)This study aimed at analyzing commodity level determinants of output side market participation of haricot bean based on cross sectional primary data collected from 123 randomly selected haricot bean producers sample households in six kebeles in Misrak Badawacho District, Hadiya Zone, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional State, Ethiopia. The...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
The effect of Supplementing Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) Seed Pow... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) seed powder on growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality of broilers. A total of 156 day-old unsexed broiler chicks (Cobb 500) were randomly assigned to four treatment groups in a completely randomized design with three replicates of 13 chicks each...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Micropropagation of Banana Varieties (Musa spp.) Using Shoot-Tip Culture N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)A study was carried out at the Tissue Culture Laboratory of Melkassa Agricultural Research Centre, Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) to investigate the effects of different types and concentrations of cytokinin's and auxins on shoot initiation and multiplication, and in vitro shoot rooting of three banana varieties using shoot-tip...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Factors Affecting the Profitability of Smallholder Common Bean Producers in C... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Common bean is one of the major pulse crops which played an important role to the Ethiopian national economy and to farmers as food and cash income. Ethiopia ranked third in common bean production in Eastern and Southern Africa. The country exported 40 percent of its total common bean production in 2010. Despite the wide dissemination of improved common...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Agricultural Research and Extension Linkages: Challenges and Intervention Opt... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)The article presents the historical evolution of attempts made in Ethiopia to strengthen the agriculture research and extension linkages since the start of formal agricultural research and extension in the early 1950s. The result reveals that there is a gradual improvement with increased types and mechanisms of the research-extension linkage in recent...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Soil Nutrient Status of Nura-Era Citrus Farm in the Awash River basin of Ethi... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Composite soil samples were collected from the Nura Era Citrus Farm. The analysis followed standard laboratory procedures to determine the physical properties, nutrients, and other chemical properties. Then, composite leaf samples from non-bearing branches were collected from the same farm and analyzed for the dry matter-based total concentration of...Created August 7, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Evaluation of Response to Super-Ovulation, Estrous Synchronization and Embryo... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)An experiment was conducted at Holetta and Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Centers dairy herd in 2011 to evaluate the number of embryos collected per super-ovulated donor cow, estrus rate (ER) and pregnancy rate (PR) of recipient cows/heifers after embryo transfer. For super-ovulation treatment a total of 19 Holstein Friesian (HF) x Boran crossbred cows...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Supporting Soil Health Intervention (SSHI)_crop response 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 -
Recovery of Soil Health and Crop Productivity of Degraded Cultivated Land of ... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Severe soil degradation and fertility depletion have resulted in poor soil health and low crop productivity in the cultivated land of most Ethiopian highlands. Thus, a three-year experiment from 2013 to 2015 was conducted to assess the potential of crop rotation and organic matter application for recovery of the soil health and crop productivity of...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Screening of Drought Tolerant Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Genotypes us... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Drought is one of the major abiotic constraints seriously influencing bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotype production in Ethiopia. Genetic resources and selection methodologies are among the prerequisites to improve the efficiency of breeding for drought tolerance. The objectives of this study were to determine the principal selection indices for...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
PVS Sweet Potato N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Sweet potato activitiy at Dera districtCreated August 7, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Impacts of Rangeland Degradation on Soil Physical, Chemical and Seed Bank Pro... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)The Somali region of Ethiopia is a typical pastoral area, that occupy >50% of the 0.7 million km2 rangeland in the country. However, all forms of rangeland degradations have become major threats to enhance a sustainable pastoral-livestock production in Ethiopia. But except for very few studies on rangeland condition assessments, no or too little...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Tef (Eragrostis tef) Variety ‘Tesfa’ N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] is extensively cultivated cereal crop in Ethiopia where it is annually grown by about 6.5 million smallholder farmers on about 30% of the total area allocated to cereal crops.However, the productivity of tef is very low compared to other cereals mainly due to lack of high yielding and lodging tolerant cultivars. The...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Thoughts on Governance and Future Orientation of Agricultural Research in Eth... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Agriculture needs to be more efficient and productive to provide more food and feed with less environmental damage to which agricultural research has a lot to offer by designing a broader research agenda. This calls for overhauling the research system towards creating a seamless coordination mechanism, assigning adequate work force, and improving physical...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Effects of Phosphorus Fertilization and Seed Dressing Fungicide on Occurrence... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Study on the effect of phosphorus fertilization and seed dressing fungicide on occurrence of pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum and yield of lentil was conducted at Debre Zeit and Chefe Donsa for six consecutive years. Lentil genotypes Alemaya and ILL-7664 were sown at the rate of 60kg/ha on 2m wide and 4m long plots. Treatments consisted Apron star 42WS (@...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Farmers’ Maize Variety Ranking as a Food-Feed Crop and the Influence of the F... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)The ever increasing population pressure with subsequent dwindling grazing land area pushes greater dependence of livestock on crop byproducts as feed source. There is a hypothesis that maize producers in the mixed farming system value the feed attribute of maize varieties for adoption. This study was conducted to investigate farmers’ rankings of maize...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Farm-Level Determinants of output Commercialization: In Haricot Bean based Fa... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)This study assesses the commercial behavior of smallholder farmers in the moisture-stress haricot bean based farming systems of central Ethiopia along with the determinants of smallholder farmers’ engagement in the sales of most important crops. Descriptive and Tobit regression analyses are used to determine the key factors that influence household...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Mortality of Sitophilus granarius (L.) and Rhyzopertha dominica (F.) Adults E... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Silica based inert dusts are eco-friendly alternatives to control stored grain insect pests due to environmental and health concerns associated with use of synthetic insecticides. A study was conducted to determine the efficacy of filter cake (a silica-based inert dust) on the granary weevil, Sitophilus granarius (L.) and lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Trends in Pesticide Use by Smallholder Farmers on ‘Meher’ Season Field and Ho... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Judicious use of pesticides in agriculture provides many important benefits and thus, they are used in the agricultural sector of Ethiopia. Trends in pesticide use between 2004/05 and 2019/20 ‘Meher’ crop seasons by smallholder farmers on field and horticultural crops at national and regional levels were assessed. For each cropping season and each crop...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023
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