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Nomination of Cassava Variety, Poundable (TMEB693), for Registration and Release for Fresh Roots Markets in Nigeria
The variety presented here for registration and release would serve as a replacement for older poundable or ‘boil and eat’ varieties, now out of cultivation, but persistently requested for by consumers and growers. We ...
Market Linkage between Community-Based Goat Breeding Cooperatives and Export Abattoirs
Small ruminant population of Ethiopia, including expert estimates of the pastoral areas, is about
66 million heads of which about 35 million is sheep (Negassa et al., 2011). Small ruminants
provide about 46% of the national ...
The current state on characterisation of indigenous breeds of sheep and goats in Ethiopia
From the beginning of domestication, the transportation of domestic animals resulted in genetic and demographic processes that explain their present-day global distribution, genetic diversity and structure. Animal genetic ...
Report on phenolic levels of biofortified tetraploid potatoes as grown in 5 locations and possible implications on iron bioavailability
This report covers the evaluation of phenolic compounds including phenolic acid, flavonoids, and anthocyanins of a selected group of tetraploid biofortified potatoes as affected by the growing location. We also report the ...
SmaRT-Ethiopia Program: Update report on partners and actors landscaping and engagement
For the implementation of the Ethiopia priority country program on Small Ruminant Value Chain Transformation (SmaRT-Ethiopia), partners and actors at national and local level play a key role in research and development ...
Application for Release of five cassava varieties in the Lowland Humid to Mid Altitude Sub Humid Agro-ecologies of Tanzania.
The performance evaluation report of 25-28 cassava varieties was done in 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 consecutively. In Tanzania they were tested in eight locations and out of these genotypes five clones showed good performance ...
Upscaling Konso goat community based breeding programs to the surrounding base populations
Sheep community-based breeding programs (CBBPs) were started in Ethiopia in
2009. Since then CBBPs has been expanded in many areas in the country as well as
other countries following promising results in genetic progress ...