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Adoption and Impact of Rust-resistant Wheat Varieties on Productivity and Household Food Security in Ethiopia
The chapter presents the adoption and diffusion of rust resistance varieties in terms of area with simultaneous reduction in the number of farmers and area under rust susceptible wheat varieties. Furthermore, factors ...
Demonstration of legume (faba bean and chickpea) technologies
Demonstration and popularization of faba bean and chickpea improved varieties and associated technologies were conducted in project target areas where significant achievements have been made.
Commercial Behavior, Varietal Preferences and Wheat Seed Markets in Ethiopia
This working paper presents the commercial behaviors in wheat seed sector, farmers' varietal preferences, and their implications on the wheat seed sector based on the primary data collected from randomly selected 524 wheat ...
Policy and Development Implications and Way Forward
Wheat rusts remain a challenge for wheat production at national, regional and global levels. Empirical evidence shows the emergence of new races and their quick spread across countries and continents with devastating ...
Rapid Deployment of Rust-Resistant Wheat Varieties in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is one of the major wheat producing countries in Africa with an estimated area of 1.7 million ha and production of 4.2 million tons at the productivity level of 2.5 ton/ha. About 4.6 million small-scale farmers ...
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 ...
Early Generation Seed Production and Supply in Ethiopia: Status, Challenges and Opportunities
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 ...
Early generation seed production of grain legumes (faba bean, chickpea and lentil)
About 357.151 ha of early generation seed of different seed classes were planted and 794.693 t of seed was produced in 2015/16 crop season. In Ethiopia breeder, pre-basic and basic seed of faba bean and chickpea were ...