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...

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...

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...

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...

Raw data for response wheat to Urea stable fertilizer

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,,...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...