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Genetic Diversity of Ethiopian Cowpea [ Vigna unguiculata (L) Walp] Genotypes... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Cowpea is a mult purpose pulse crop grown by poor farmers in marginal and drought prone areas of Ethiopia. Information on the extent of genetic variation in cowpea genotypes is crucial to identify diverse genotypes for crop improvement and for efficient utilization of the existing genetic resources. Therefore, the objectives of the study were to assess...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Effect of Deficit Irrigation Levels at Different Growth Stages on Yield and W... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)The scarcity of water is the most severe constraint for the development of agriculture in arid and semi-arid areas. Under such conditions, the need to use the available water economically and efficiently is unquestionable. The important strategy for increasing water productivity and improving water use efficiency in the area of water scarcity was deficit...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
System Productivity and Yield of Component Crops as Affected by Intercropping... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Selection of maize and legumes variety selection in Ethiopia target only sole cropping system without considering the relative performance of varieties of varying morphologies under maize/legume intercropping. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of intercropping maize and common bean varieties with different morphologies on yield and...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Comparative Study of Production and Reproductive Performance of Various Strai... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Five Parent Stocks (PS) bred by European companies, and one local PS, were evaluated for their production and reproductive performance under typical conditions in Ethiopia. The PSs were Dominant red Barred (DR), Dominant Sussex (DS), Koekoek (KK), Lohmann Brown (LB) Lohmann-Dual (LD), and reared in floor pens up to 60 weeks of age, were evaluated for feed...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Wheat response to Urea stable N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Raw data for response wheat to Urea stable fertilizerCreated August 7, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
The Effect of Dietary Inclusion of Mango (Magnifera indica L.) Fruit Waste on... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)Animal response trials aimed at investigating the effect of different levels of mango fruit waste (MFW) on growth performance and carcass characteristics of Cobb-500 broiler chickens were carried out. One-hundred sixty day-old chicks with similar body weight were randomly distributed to four treatment diets each with four replications. The four treatments...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Cost of Production of Coffee in Jimma Zone, Southwest Ethiopia N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)The main objective of this study was to provide detail information on production costs and gross profits of coffee production under smallholder farmers. The study was conducted at four districts of Jimma zone namely Limu Kosa, Gomma, Manna and Gumay Districts. A total of 110 coffee plots from 90 coffee producing households were selected for this study....Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
Production, Preservation, and Utilization Patterns of Brewery Spent Grain in ... N3 | TTL | RDF/XML | JSON-LD
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)The study was conducted at Sebeta and Bedele towns in Oromia regional state and at Debre-Berhan town in Amhara regional state during October-January 2016/17. The objectives of the study were; to assess the current feed byproduct production potentials of the breweries, existing storage conditions and the status of brewery spent grain utilization by...Created March 18, 2023 • Updated December 30, 2023 -
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