Tomato is an important cash crop in Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. However, the yield is constrained by poor soil fertility management and lack of appropriate/adequate fertilizers rates recommendation. Experiments were conducted at Melkassa on station with the objectives of evaluating effect of N and P fertilizer applications on growth and yield, and...

Data collected from field trial conducted to evaluate the response of soybean to rhizobia inoculation

The Russian wheat aphid (RWA) (Diuraphis noxia) is cosmopolitan pest and yield losses of up to 93% have been reported in different wheat growing countries. It also has a high degree of biotypic diversity that necessitates the development and utilization of location specific resistant wheat varieties. Thus, 49 wheat genotypes known to be resistant to RWA...

Tef yield and Biomass data

Variability in the response to super-ovulatory treatments in Bos indicus, Bos taurus, and their crosses was reported to be a fundamental biological difference in reproductive function between them and has been a major barrier to the adoption of similar superovulation protocols. Therefore, this study was designed to optimize the super-ovulatory protocol...

The paper is based on data collected in 2007/08 by IFPRI on smallholder market participation in Ethiopia from a random cross-section sample of 1577 households, with a focus on staple food grains and the effects of transaction and non-transaction costs on output market participations as a buyer and a seller. The multivariate Probit and multivariate Tobit...

A total of 188 tef genotypes including 144 pure lines selected from germplasm collection, 35 released varieties, eight breeding lines and their parents were evaluated in three replications at two locations in Ethiopia. The objectives were to assess the magnitude and pattern of phenotypic diversity in tef genotypes obtained from various sources in...

The datasets were recorded from the Lysimeter experiment, where different rates of Urea and different levels of irrigation water were used. The test crop was onion, and the experiment was conducted at the Melkassa Agricultural Research Center.

Blended fertilizer rate for wheat crop

A wide range of agroecology of Ethiopian soil is deficient in both major and micronutrients. The new fertilizer type for crop production is formulated based on the nutrient deficiency. This site-specific fertilizer does not show crop yield variability when compared with the previously recommended NP fertilizer. Understanding the most yield-limiting...

Experiment to detect garlic-infecting virus for three improved garlic varieties and to clean the virus were conducted in Ethiopia. Garlic cloves were planted in screen house at Biosciences Eastern and Central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute Hub Nairobi, Kenya in 2014. Reverse Transcription polymerase chain reaction (*RT-PCR) technique...

Combining ability, heterosis and heritability studies can provide valuable information for designing appropriate breeding programs for resistance to coffee wilt disease (CWD), which caused by Gibberella xylarioides. The objective of this study was conducted to determine heterosis, combining ability, and heritability for resistance to CWD using an...

Soybean is an exotic crop to Ethiopia and may not necessarily have a specific endosymbiont in the soil. However, since it is a promiscuous host, nodulated by cross nodulating rhizobia, it is likely that some compatible endosymbionts exist from heterologous hosts that could nodulate it with effective nitrogen fixation. This necessitated the search for...

This study examined important factors determining the market participation of dairy cattle farmers in selected urban and peri-urban areas of Ethiopia. Descriptive and double-hurdle negative binomial count data (econometric) models were used to analyze the cross-sectional data that was collected from the farmers through a household survey. Results indicate...

The fishery resource in Lake Koka is very important for food and nutrition security, and livelihoods of many riparian communities. Proper resource utilization is very essential to sustain the benefits of this natural capital for the present and future generations. So far little is known about the state of the fishery in Lake Koka. Therefore, the study...

Effect of feeding different levels of Water lily seed meal (WLSM) on broilers performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality traits was studied for six weeks. Four levels of WLSM (T1 = 0%; T2 = 3%; T3 = 6% and T4 = 9%) were compared using 120 Cobb 500 chicks; 3 pens/treatment and 10 chicks/pens. Measured parameters were feed intake and body...

Tef is the major Ethiopian cereal grown on 3.02 million hectares annually and serving as staple food grain for over 70 million people. However, the national average yield of tef is low 1.6 t ha-1. This is partially due to the use of unimproved local cultivars, and biotic and abiotic stresses. Therefore the experiment was designed to develop high yielding...

In Ethiopia agriculture is the dominant sector and a large majority of the population make their living out of it. It is dominated by smallholder production under rain-fed system.Climate change is projected to be a major threat for the sector resulting in variability in smallholder farmers’ productivity and income. The impact of climate change is expected...

Availability of conservation tillage implements, especially tillage-cum-planters, in Ethiopia is limited. Some of these available tillage-cum-planters perform well only on light soils while others perform poor due to the complications they have on their seed-fertilizer metering systems. To overcome the problem, a new ripper attached animal-drawn maizecum-...

Field pea is an ancient legume crop grown mainly for food in Ethiopia. Even though, there are over one thousand five hundred field pea collections, only a few studies has been conducted on the magnitude and pattern of genetic diversity at molecular level particularly with SSR markers. In this study, genetic diversity of 142 contrasting Ethiopian field pea...