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Business Model: Supply of Livestock Inputs - Shaya Women's Sheep Fattening Youth Cooperative
In most countries, agricultural inputs are mainly sold by private sector businesses. Lack of livestock production inputs is a core problem particularly for livestock farmers in Ethiopia. This is due to the limited number ...
Effect of processed sweet lupin (Lupinus angustifolius) grain supplementation on growth performance and socioeconomic feasibility of Doyogena sheep in Ethiopia
Background
The experiment evaluated the effect of supplementing sheep fed natural pasture hay with processed sweet lupin grain on growth performance and its economic feasibility. The finding revealed that use of steamed ...
Effects of replacing Concentrate mix with different levels of Erythrina brucei (korch) leaves on Nutrient Intake, Digestibility and Body Weight Gain of Bonga Sheep fed a basal diet of Pennisetum glaucifolium (desho grass)
Shortage of feed-in quantity and quality are the major setback for livestock production and productivity in Ethiopia since there is a huge livestock population in the country. The unavailability and increment of commercial ...
Business Model: Production and Supply of Livestock Feeding Equipment_Buta Shuta Youth Cooperative, Ethiopia
Feed accounts for 75% of production costs for livestock farmers. A reduction in feed costs or feed productivity would significantly improve the financial situation of sheep farmers. Feed storage and feeding equipment are ...
Achieving agronomic gain through zero-tillage and/or rice-straw mulching to grow potatoes in Asia: What do we know?
The rice-based systems have been recently recognized as the most critical plant source of C emission worldwide. Asia is the continent with higher rice production. Actions to get Sustainable Intensification (SI) of existing ...
Assessing Soil Erosion Hazards Using Land-Use Change and Rill Erosion Frequency Ratio Method: Case Study of Rmel Watershed, Northern Tunisia
This study aims to identify the vulnerable landscape areas using rill erosion frequency ratio and land-use change associated soil erosion hazard by employing geo-informatics techniques and the revised universal soil loss ...
Sheep Fattening is Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Youth, Including Young Women in Ethiopia
Traditionally, subsistence sheep fattening systems in rural Ethiopian Highlands offer limited income
potential for the farmers. Improved sheep fattening practices and technologies adopted
by 44 youth groups in 50 kebeles ...
Technical Progress Report of Unlocking the Potential of Grass pea for Resilient Agriculture in Dry Environments (UPGRADE): Introgress low ODAP trait into locally adapted varieties through marker assisted selection
ICARDA in partnership with the John Innes Centre and the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research has carried out various experiments envisaged in the work packages of the project entitled “Unlocking the Potential of ...
Technical Progress Report Unlocking the Potential of Grass pea for Resilient Agriculture in Dry Environments (UPGRADE): Test performance of low and high ODAP genotypes in field and controlled conditions
ICARDA in partnership with the John Innes Centre and the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research has carried out various experiments envisaged in the work packages of the project entitled “Unlocking the Potential of ...
Optimising the use of Barley straw in Tropical Ruminant Diets
This thesis provides a general overview of barley straw utilization and the means for its improvement in Ethiopian mixed crop-livestock farming systems. Most Ethiopian households store crop residues in exposed heaps which ...