Abstract: Achieving national food security and diversifying export earnings from agricultural products is one of the major challenges currently facing developing countries like Ethiopia. Pulse crops in general and soya bean in particular play great role in improving households’ food security, increasing income for smallholder farmers. Despite the high production potential and the economic importance of the crop, adoption and dissemination of improved soya bean varieties is constrained by v...
Abstract: The study attempted to examine onion marketing in Kobo District of Amhara National Regional State with specific objectives of analyzing the structure-conduct-performance of onion market, the determinants of onion marketed surplus and the spatial market integration between the district market and other destination markets (Mekele, Dessie and Bahir Dar). Both primary and secondary data were used for this study. Multistage sampling procedure was employed to select sample onion produce...
Abstract: This study was conducted to estimate the technical efficiency of smallholder wheat producers and identify its determinants in Soro district of Hadiya zone, southern Ethiopia. Cross sectional data from a random sample of 125 wheat producing farmers collected during 2015/16 production season were used for the analysis. The estimated results of the Cobb- Douglas frontier model with inefficiency variables shows that the mean technical efficiency of the farmers in the production of whea...
Abstract: The present study was carried out with the objectives of understanding the existing resource allocation practice, the possibility of increasing farm income through optimal allocation of resources under risk situation, and to develop risk efficient sets of farm plans for representative households based on cross-sectional data drawn from 155 households who were selected using stratified multi-stage random sampling technique during the 2015/16 production year. The results of descripti...
Abstract: Increase of agricultural production and productivity is very important to achieve the goal of food security. An efficient use of the existing resources by farm households improves their productivity and thereby increases their output. Wheat is one of the dominant crops and its productivity is low in the study area. This means that it is possible to obtain additional output from existing inputs used, if resources are properly used and efficiently allocated. This study aimed to estim...
Abstract: This study was conducted with the objective of evaluating camel milk value chain in Degahbour Woreda, Jarar Zone, Somali Regional State of Ethiopia. Two stage random sampling techniques were used to collect primary data from 167 camel milk producers and 31 traders using pre-tested structured questionnaire. Focus group discussions, key informants interview and personal observation were also employed to collect data. To analyze the collected data, descriptive statistics, SCP approach...
Abstract: Potato is one of most important food crops in the world in general and Ethiopia in particular. However, low productivity of potato is one of the major constraints in potato production in Ethiopia. Encouraging adoption and wider diffusion of potato technologies are important policy measure to address the problem. However, adoption and intensity of adoption of improved potato varieties are constrained by many factors. Hence, in this study an effort was made to evaluate adoption decis...
Abstract: Cheha district in Gurage Zone of Southern Ethiopia is known for Enset farming. However, use of traditional technologies and poor linkages along the market chain were mentioned the major problems constraining the potential benefits from the sector. Therefore, this study was aimed at analyzing value chain of Enset products focusing on Kocho and Bulla. The data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. The primary data for this study were collected from 140 farmers, 38 t...
Abstract: The study was conducted to evaluate the effects of different levels of orange flesh sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) root meal (OFSPRM) on egg production, egg quality, fertility and hatchability of egg, embryonic mortality and economic feasibility on White leghorn layers at Haramaya University Poultry Farm for 90 days. Ninety six White leghorn (WL) layers at thirty-two weeks of age with an average initial body weight of 1176.88± 36.32 g were randomly distributed to four treatments, ...
Abstract: Lower production, marketing inefficiencies and low coordination of maize value chain is the main problems though Guduru woreda is potential in maize production. This study attempted to analyze maize value chain with the specific objectives of identifying actors, assessing their role and linkages, identify the determinants of market participation decision and level of participation. Both primary and secondary data was utilized by using two-stage sampling procedure. The primary data ...
Abstract: A feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of different levels of soybean meal (SBM) in the ration on feed intake, growth performance, feed conversion ratio (FCR), carcass characteristics and economics of commercial broiler chicks. Two hundred twenty five day-old Cobb-500 unsexed commercial chicks with initial body weight of 48.87±0.42g were used for the experiment. The chicks were randomly distributed to 15 pens of 15 chicks each, which were randomly distributed to 5 tr...
Abstract: In developing countries like Ethiopia, improving the market linkage of smallholder farmers is one of the strategies to improve agricultural productivity and production of agricultural outputs. However, there is a lack of studies conducted on how smallholder dairy farmers are integrated in to the value chain for their production. The study was initiated with the objectives of analyzing dairy value chain in Haramaya woreda of Oromia National Regional State, in Eastern Ethiopia. The s...
Abstract: Different species and varieties of forage vetch and oat were identified to successfully adapt and preform in high lands of Bale. However, their oat-vetch mixture was not evaluated. The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of variety on biomass yield, seed yield, forage quality, and biological compatibility of oats and vetch grown in pure stand and mixtures. This experiment was conducted at Sinana Agricultural Research Center, Bale zone, southern Ethiopia, during the Gana crop...
Abstract: The study was conducted to evaluate Comparison of sorghum varieties as asubstitute to maize on feed intake, effciency,egg production, egg quality, fertility,hatchability, embryonic mortality,chick quality, and economic return of White leghorn (WLH) chicken at Poultry Farm of Haramaya University. One hundred fifty six WLH hens with average initial body weight of 989.72 ± 6.8g (mean ±SD) and age at seven month were used for the experiment. The chickens were randomly distributed to1...
Abstract: In Ethiopia, wheat is being cultivated on about 1.51 million hectares, with about 3.3 million tons of grain yield. However, productivity of this crop is low compared to its genetic potential. Field study was conducted in 2015 cropping season at Fiche. The objectives of the study were determining the optimum rates of N and P fertilizers, their concentration in plant parts and their use efficiency by wheat. The treatments were four level of N (0, 32, 64 and 96 kg/ha) and four level o...