Abstract: A total of sixteen barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) genotypes were evaluated for genetic variability and character associations at two different environments. The genotypes were grown in a simple lattice design. Data were collected on 16 morpho-agronomic characters. The analysis of variance at each location showed significant (P< 0.05) difference for all of the characters, except spikelets per spike gonder This indicated the existence of variability and hence the potential for selection...
Abstract: Field experiment was conducted to assess the effect of sources of animals’ manure and rates of inorganic NP on yield and yield related parameters of maize on the saline soil at Alage, southern Ethiopia. Factorial combinations of three sources of animals’ manure (beef, goat, and poultry), and five rates (0, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%) of the recommended dose of inorganic NP fertilizers (92 kg N ha-1 and 69 kg P2O5 ha-1) were laid out in randomized complete block design with three r...
Abstract: Scarcity of water is the most severe constraint for development of agriculture in arid and semi-arid areas. Under such conditions, the need to use the available water economically and efficiently is indisputable. The important strategy for increasing water productivity and improving water use efficiency in the area of water scarcity, was deficit irrigation. A field experiment was conducted at Mehoni Agricultural Research Center during off season aimed at investigating the effect of...
Abstract: An experiment was conducted in Horro Guduru Zone, at Guduru Animal Production and Research Center (GAPRC) of Wollega University to evaluate the effect of Ficus sur (Cv. Forssk) fruits supplementation on feed intake, milk yield and composition, and sensory attributes of Horro cows. Twelve healthy lactating Horro cows of similar lactation stage, body weight and condition were selected from GAPRC. All of the selected cows were in early (one weak to 10days) lactation stage. The experim...
Abstract: Soil acidity, which is associated directly with deficiency of nutrients like phosphorus (P); nitrogen (N) and potassium (K) and is accompanied by toxicity of aluminium (Al), iron (Fe) and manganese (Mn) appear to be the major constraint to crop production in western parts of Ethiopia in particular. Therefore, three field experiments were carried out in the acidic soil of Assosa, western Ethiopia, for two years in 2014 and 2015 main growing seasons. Thus, the first experiment was co...
Abstract: The study was conducted in Sibu Sire District of eastern Wollega zone with the objective of to determine dairy production practice, milk quality and to identify the marketing system of milk and milk products in the study area. A total of 6 kebeles were selected randomly. From each of the selected kebeles 30 households were purposively selected based on the owing of at least one local dairy cows and interviewed with open ended and close ended questionnaire. Thirty samples of fresh m...
Abstract: Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is an important food crop cultivated in arid and semi-arid regions of Ethiopia in general and East Hararghe Zone in particular. However, the productivity of the crop is low due to limited and erratic rainfall, low soil fertility, and traditional farming practice. Therefore, effects of seed priming, and combined application of in-situ moisture conservation and nutrient management on sorghum productivity were investigated during 2014 cropping sea...
Abstract: Faba bean (Vicia faba L.), also called ‘broad bean or horse bean’ is an annual crop, which mainly grows in the highlands of Ethiopia for human consumption. The objective of this study was to improve the quantity and quality of forages produced from intercropping of faba bean (Vicia faba L.) with forage oats (Avena sativa L.) on forage biomass, straw, grain yields, and straw quality. Farmers have an experience of not weeding faba bean plots to get more weed biomass. The field tr...
Abstract: Maize (Zea mays L) is an important food security crop widely grown in Hararghe Zones, eastern Ethiopia. However, the average yield of the crop is low due to several biotic and abiotic production constraints, among which low soil fertility and moisture stress are the major factors. As a result, three field experiments were conducted in the Haramaya District during the 2019/20 and 2020/21 main cropping seasons. The first objective was to investigate the response of two hybrid maize v...
Abstract: This study was conducted in three agro-ecologies of Kersa district to generate information on the existing production system, marketing and egg quality traits of indigenous village chicken. A total of 120 indigenous chicken owners from Highland, Midland and Lowland and 51 market participants from the three selected market places (Lange, Kersa and Woter) were included in the study. A two stage purposive sampling (for agro-ecology and RK selection) and a random sampling technique to ...
Abstract: Hot pepper is an important spice and vegetable crop in Ethiopia, but its productivity is low due to poor agronomic practices including inappropriate nutrient supply and poor seedling management before transplanting. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted on the demonstration field at Agarfa Agricultural Technical Vocational and Education Training (ATVET) College in Bale Zone, south-eastern Ethiopia to evaluate the effects of nitrogen fertilizer and hardening seedlings on fruit...
Abstract: Production of animal feed as a sole crop is almost impossible in most part of Ethiopia, particularly in the study area due to land shortage. Realizing the potential of intercropping to address this problem, a field experiment was conducted during 2016 crop season at Dilla, Southern Ethiopia; to identify the compatible forage legume for intercropping with maize, to determine appropriate plant population that cope up with maize intercropping and to evaluate the effect of intercroppin...
Abstract: Questionnaire survey from 144 households and physical measurements from 510 animals were done to characterize production system and phenotype of the Begait sheep breed in two districts of Tigrai regional state. Reconnaissance tour, focus group discussion, semistructured interview, field observation, secondary data and linear body measurements were used to generate the dataset and analyzed using SPSS V20 and SAS V9.1 for the survey and linear body measurements respectively. The stud...
Abstract: The study was conducted in three districts of Western Zone of Tigray Region, Ethiopia; with the aims of assessing reproductive and productive performance, factors that affect the performance of dairy cattle and to determine milk composition of indigenous and Crossbred dairy cows. A total of 120 households; 50 for Begayit, 40 for Arado breed and 30 for Crossbred cow producers were purposely selected and interviewed with pre – tested semi structured questionnaire. Monitoring activi...
Abstract: The study was carried out in Nedjo districts, West Wollega Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia, to identify traditional butter preservation techniques, to evaluate the microbial quality and organoleptic properties of butter preserved using different preservative and to assess some traditional butter production parameters, To generate data, semi-structured questionnaire was prepared for the total of 180 respondents, 30 from each kebele of six selected kebeles of the districts and ...