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Milk fat separation to accelerate butter production and reduce labour
Milk fat separation increases the efficiency of butter processing with enhanced quality. Milk fat separation will increase the milk returns through processing high value products from the skimmed milk. The separation of ...
Yield Gaps, Varietal Adoption, and Seed Commercial Behaviour: Barley Seed System Landscape in the Highlands of Ethiopia
Barley is among the major food security crops in the highlands and industrial commodity for the emerging brewery industry. This paper documents the current productivity levels, varietal adoption and seed commercial behaviors ...
Dairy cultures to improve the quality of traditional dairy products
Fermented milk and fermented milk based products are produced using dairy cultures. Using dairy cultures is a simple way to produce a day to day stable product with specific characteristics. Using dairy culture will improve ...
Turning the tide on pulses production in Ethiopia - Lentil
Ethiopia is a major lentil producer in the sub-Saharan Africa region. However, its lentil cultivation area and
production was declining for several reasons: use of low-yielding landraces, diseases, insect pests, ...
Yield Gaps, Varietal Adoption, and Seed Commercial Behaviour: Faba Bean Seed System in the Highlands of Ethiopia
The paper presents the varietal adoption and seed use of faba bean based on primary data collected from 370 faba bean producing farmers covering 19 districts in 13 major faba bean growing zones of Amhara, Oromia, SNNPR and ...
Faba bean Yield Gaps, Varietal Adoption and Seed Use in Ethiopia
Grain legumes play a crucial role in Ethiopian
agriculture, with a 12.4 % share of the total
land cultivated and 9.88% of the total grain
production. Faba bean is the most important
pulse crop, ranking first among all pulse ...
Building Resilient and Diversified Livelihoods for Ethiopia's Smallholders
In Ethiopia, barley is grown by over 4 million smallholder farmers on close to 1 million ha, producing 1,953,385 tonnes annually (2015). In 2015, domestic malt barley production in Ethiopia met only 35% of the demand. The ...
Barley Yield Gaps, Varietal Adoption, and Seed Commercial Behavior of Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia
Barley (food and malt) is among the most
important crops for food and nutritional
security of smallholders’ farmers in the
mixed crop-livestock farming systems
in the highlands of Ethiopia. Barley is
normally grown twice ...